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...signs indicated that it would also be a historic case of journalistic frustration; the committee had decided to bar press and public from the hearings. The testimony would be fed out to the press through a system of stenographers, censors and press aides, and reporters feared that this cumbersome apparatus would delay the news for hours, if not shut much...
...Since Gandhi's death Nehru has indeed tried to speak Gandhi's language, but he has not acted by Gandhi's faith. He says: "Protecting oneself, unfortunately, means relying on the armed forces and the like, and so we build up, where necessity arises, our defense apparatus. We cannot take the risk of not doing so, although Mahatma Gandhi would have taken the risk, no doubt, and I dare not say that he would have been wrong . . . But we are small folk and dare not take that risk . . . [You] ask me what...
Opportunity-and Danger. The Red drives gave Van Fleet an opportunity. Experience has shown that the Chinese run out of momentum, after an advance of 50 miles or so, at a point where their supplies are exhausted and their supply apparatus and order of battle disrupted. Then they make long stops for regrouping and resupply. That would be the time -if he had pulled his forces back with a minimum of casualties and in good cohesive order-for Van Fleet to turn on them and try to cut them to ribbons...
Judge Dunne was more impressed by the medical evidence. He promptly ordered Cheryl Labrenz put under the guardianship of a court official (because of the parents' technical neglect). The guardian at once authorized transfusions. The apparatus had been set up in advance at Michael Reese Hospital. Not a minute was wasted in giving Baby Cheryl 60 ccs of blood. Within 48 hours, her red blood cells seemed to be winning the battle, and the doctors were confident that her life had been saved...
...Taft complained that, on TV, "the Senators are talking to the people rather than to each other." Washington's Senator Harry Cain was so touched by the plight of some witnesses cited for contempt that he felt they might just have been frightened "by all those lights and apparatus...