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...blind, headlong years before 1938, Streit wrote his ideas into a book. Before he was through, he had worked out in careful detail the apparatus of a federal government of democracies (see chart). The executive power under the Streit plan would be held by a board of three men chosen by popular vote and two men chosen by a Senate and a House of Deputies. The Deputies would be elected by popular vote; each country would elect two Senators; countries of over 25 million would be allowed more...
...Yorkers had been told to give up tub baths for showers, forbidden to wash their cars, urged to go unshaven one day a week; they had been coaxed, wheedled and threatened. All the irritating wartime apparatus of publicity stunts and insistent radio commercials and all the meddling busybodies who liked to demand public sacrifices had been put to work to save the city's dwindling water supply. And still New York City's reservoirs contained only enough water to keep the metropolis going for 90 days. Last week, feeling just a little bit ridiculous but also a little...
...party, under General Secretary Stalin, had need of an engineer such as young Malenkov. The Communist apparatus was grinding and bumping under the pressure of Old Bolshevik rivalry and suspicion. While Stalin cut down and purged his rivals, Malenkov served him as personal secretary and snooper. The student technician of power had charge of all party dossiers in the middle and upper levels. He developed an astonishing memory, became a walking file from which Stalin could extract at any moment whatever record was needed to help along the ruthless struggle for power...
...Linguistics at Georgetown University is considering using it in an extracurricular course. The Institute of Logopedics in Wichita, Kans. is experimenting to see if it will help cure speech defects. For two years, Charles R. Elliott, psychologist at the University of North Carolina, ran tests with another pillow-mike apparatus which its inventor, bubbly little President Max Sherover of the Linguaphone Institute, calls a "cerebrograph." Psychologist Elliott found that a student who has been subjected to the cerebrograph can memorize a list of words (boy, egg, art, say, run, not, sir ...) faster than one who hasn...
Inkeles' book is designed "to explain the effectiveness of Soviet propaganda." In it, he will try to balance two fundamental facts about Russian mass communication. "On one hand," he thinks, "the Russian system is a well-planned, smoothly-run, and fully-utilized apparatus. But on the other hand, it is not designed with the purpose of facilitating the free flow of ideas among the Russian people...