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...Even before Hiss had begun his meteoric rise in the State Department, said Chambers in a dispassionate voice, when Hiss was still on the Nye committee, Hiss said that he had "an angle" for getting State Department documents. The Hiss career remained under the watchful eye of the Red apparatus. In 1936 Hiss had the opportunity to transfer from the Justice to the State Department. Said Chambers: "He [Hiss] wanted to know the party's wishes on that ... I discussed the problem with J. Peters [Soviet spy-ring master] and told Mr. Hiss J. Peters wished him to enter...
Iron clad safety devices such as circuit breakers which automatically go on when a laboratory technician approaches apparatus are impractical in work where adjustments on the equipment must be made all the time, he explained...
Switchboard Movement. What Krieg cautiously proposes is a lengthy inquiry into the possibility of building substitute transmission stations, i.e., electrical apparatuses which would be worn, perhaps, on the head, through which controlled and meaningful signals could be sent electrically to the brain of a blinded man. A group of electrical contacts touching the surface of the subject's brain, says Dr. Krieg, might enable him to read. A pattern of such impulses coming through the electrodes of the apparatus might be controlled to appear as words, moving across the blind man's visual consciousness like the letters...
...Krieg wants to try the same technique with deafness and paralysis. In some kinds of paralysis, he theorizes, the patient could be equipped with an apparatus (as a substitute transmission station for damaged nerves), worn at the hip or knee and turned on or off by the patient. A manually operated switchboard might select such a desired motion as walking...
Next Tuesday, it will all be over. There'll be a burst of applause for the winner, in the Parker House lobby. The sound apparatus will be taken off the trucks and the city will quiet down for another two years...