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...newsless fortnight wore on, nameless "experienced Moscow observers," "usually informed sources," reliable diplomats" and "authoritative sources" began rearing their heads in dispatches from all four capitals. Gradually, however, the bare outlines of what was going on did become somewhat clearer (see INTERNATIONAL). In Moscow, where even these outlines were not visible to newsmen, the correspondents took to framing their cables in advance, leaving blanks to be filled in after "meeting ended " and "meeting lasted ." To make sure that it got out such news-or any real news-first, the A.P. booked a long-distance telephone line to London for three...
...there was one other big reason. It was the basic political fact that a state's position in the national political scene is often determined by a purely internal political scrap. Nowhere was that clearer than in Pennsylvania, the host to the convention, the traditional home of rugged Republicanism, the Keystone State whose 73 votes are second in weight only to New York...
Douglas MacArthur and all the apparatus of SCAP could do very little about this larger challenge. It was becoming much clearer to Americans that the recovery and security of one depended upon the recovery of many. That would require just as much understanding and perseverance-and probably help-in Asia as in Western Europe...
...used can't be stepped up without endangering the patient. Last week Westinghouse Physicist John Wo Coltman, 32, who has been inventing gadgets since he was a boy, thought he had the answer: an X-ray intensifier, to give physicians a look as much as 500 times clearer than with ordinary fluoroscopes...
...face from London to the S.S. Berengaria, 1,000 miles out at sea, and in the U.S. fuzzy facsimiles of Felix the Cat were televised. Three years later, in a Montclair, N.J. basement, Dr. Allen B. Du Mont brought forth a workable television receiver. The image was becoming clearer...