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...trial before a three-man military tribunal in Ankara on charges of conspiring with the U.S.S.R. against Turkish security. Although Turkish law prescribes death for Communist leaders, it seemed likely that those convicted would get off with prison terms. Nevertheless, the police were satisfied that the main Communist apparatus in Turkey had been thoroughly smashed...
...present grandstands on Soldiers' Field are not alone decidedly ugly, but positively dangerous, and the very sight of a piece of fire apparatus behind the stands at a big football game has made many persons timid...
From down the hall came the stutter of machine guns and the whine of planes. "Oh that's our shooting gallery," my guide said. As we entered, two enlisted men on a yeoman's holiday were firing at planes, flashed on a screen by a projector. An electrical apparatus records the hits, while the sound track blares the sounds of battle. "How are you doing?" yelled the Lieutenant. "Little rusty," the sailor yelled back, as a bomb explosion reverberated in the room...
...life," he said much later, "has been aimed at one goal only: to infer or to guess how the mental apparatus is constructed and what forces interplay and counteract in it." But he began, like any other laboratory neurology student of his day, by dissecting the spines of eels and the nerve fibers of crayfish...
There was no formal opening or dedication ceremony for the million dollar addition to Harvard's engineering facilities. Instead, workmen have been moving scientific apparatus into the empty building since last June, and scientists began their work as painters and electricians left...