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...Correspondent Ball could draw on eleven years of entries in his notebooks since he did his first story on Ulbricht and the East German Communists. That was back in June 1950, covering the famed East Berlin rally of "free German youth" for his home-town paper, the Owosso (Mich.) Argus-Press. In the process, he was arrested and held for several hours by the Volkspolizei...
...general pickup in the economy. Just after President Kennedy's speech, the Dow-Jones industrial average scored its best three-day gain of the year, rose 18.76 points to close at a near record 705.13. Predicted Securities Analyst Harold B. Dorsey of Wall Street's Argus Research Corporation: "The annual rate of earnings on the Dow-Jones industrial average stocks in the first half of next year will be more than 10% higher than the best calendar year on record...
Torches guttered, decorous demands were spurned. The only injury (a leg almost squished between two insolent chariots) was as crippling as the single egg yolk splattered on Mass. Ave. One freshman turned to run, but he was nabbed by an Argus-eyed research fellow...
...autumn of 1958, the U.S. exploded three rocket-launched nuclear bombs 300 miles above the South Atlantic. Purpose of the explosions, known as Project Argus, was to test the theory that charged particles released by the blasts would be trapped in the earth's magnetic field like the sun-borne particles of the Van Allen radiation belt (TIME, March 30, 1959). The experiment worked fine, but when the New York Times finally broke the story six months later, U.S. authorities were disturbed at the "breach of security" involved. And even after most details of Project Argus became public knowledge...
...spread as waves, moving with almost the speed of light. At almost the same instant, Soviet monitoring stations in the Pacific, in Central Asia, on the Black Sea, and near Murmansk in extreme northwestern Russia recorded the waves clearly. After studying the records, Dr. Troitskaya decided that the final Argus blast on Sept 6, exploded a small fraction of a second from 10 hr. 12 min. 34 sec. p.m. Greenwich mean time. At last week's end this figure was still classified information...