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...joked and chatted with some 150 friends who turned out to cheer at the station. Then the "Truman Victory Special" chuffed away through the President's native Missouri on its last triumphant ride. Small towns flashed by in a blur of smiling faces and waving handkerchiefs; farmers saluted from the fields...
...that it can take movies at 11,000,000 frames a second-more than ten times as fast as any previous machine. Developed by the University of Rochester's Dr. Brian O'Brien and Gordon G. Milne, the new camera produces a picture that is a ragged blur, but good enough for scientific studies and measurements. A bullet, photographed by this slow-motion technique, travels only an inch in a minute...
...Will of God. The fact that Christians in India are a tiny religious minority has always tended to blur denominational differences. Even so, the road to union has been an uphill climb. In 1919, at the village of Tranquebar, south of Madras, where India's first Protestant missionaries had landed, 50 ministers of evangelical churches met to discuss union. Some of them-Anglicans and members of the South India United Church*-signed a manifesto proposing union...
...solved the troublesome triangle with a simple formula: pay-as-you-see. His company's scientists, he said, had perfected a method of peeling several key frequencies off the television band, channeling them through telephone wires. Without these essential frequencies, the telecast is received as a meaningless blur...
...clear up the blur, the owner of a pay-as-you-see television set would only have to call "Phone Vision" on his telephone, tell the operator what show he wanted to see; the price of admission would be added to his phone or electric light bill. A small, inexpensive (about $5) telephone attachment* would transmit the missing key frequencies to his set. Another show could not be tuned in without another paid admission. The system, McDonald predicts, will be operating within a year-barring, of course, legal objections by the Federal Communications Commission, which has not yet considered...