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Minor Nets. These men were the prime sources of information. There were minor spies and subsidiary nets in the Soviet apparatus.* On the Pacific coast, Communist Steve Nelson, now under indictment for contempt of Congress, organized a cell in the radiation laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley. Another ring operated around Chicago with Scientist Clarence Hiskey (also under indictment for contempt) as a chief contact. In New York, Yakovlev directed the activities of Courier Harry Gold, in his pickups from Fuchs and from Alfred Dean Slack (now serving 15 years for espionage), who gave Gold a sample...
...gentleman directing the activity is end coach Joe Maras. Mark Schoenfeld watches while star freshman ends Ted Kennedy and Harvey Popell (hidden by apparatus) give the hefty Maras a ride...
Trying to pound the club into the condition it apparently lost over the winter, Jordan has been sending the men through a variety of exercises. Besides standard calisthenics, the team spends time working on blocking dummies and such specialized devices as the Crowther apparatus...
...recent months, thousands of Chinese have been executed. Formosa's intelligence apparatus, which has been very reliable, disclosed many of the killings, and execution reports also peppered the pages of the official Communist press. New China News Agency (Communist) announced the execution of 96 persons in Canton and Kwangtung Province in a three-day period, some of them women students. The Wuhan radio (Communist) reported that in two weeks the Red army had "exterminated" more than 16,000 "local bandits." Foochow Reds announced the mass arrest of 247 "secret agents...
...Force is now using their discovery in a practical way. Flying over the ice on the Arctic Ocean, an airplane first drops a geophone fitted with radio apparatus to report what it hears. Then the airplane drops a small bomb, which explodes above the ice. By measuring the frequency of the ice waves picked up by the geophone, the airplanes's crew can tell how thick the ice is. This technique, the Air Force hopes, will help it find stretches of ice that are strong enough for radar or weather stations...