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...five years, Louis worked on his code, translating every letter into the simplest possible cluster of dots. He also invented a special stylus and slate with which the blind could write, started working on a system of musical and mathematical notation. Meanwhile, tapping his way about "in the dark hours and crooked passages," he began teaching his method to his own pupils...
Sight & Sound. First there was a private talk with Commander in Chief Harry Truman at the White House, then a nostalgic trip aboard the President's private train to West Point's 150th anniversary ceremony (where Ridgway got his second oak leaf cluster to his Distinguished Service Medal). At midweek he disappeared behind the closed doors of the Senate Armed Services Committee, later went on to Fort McNair for a special military review and reception. Next day, trim in his suntans, he addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress. Twenty-four hours later he spoke...
...nation's No. 2 basic producer of aluminum. Not only Reynolds, but Alcoa and Kaiser, the other members of the big three, have been expanding as well. Because of the power shortage, the new plants have shunned the hydroelectric centers (TVA, Bonneville, etc.) where aluminum plants used to cluster, have had to seek alternative sources of cheap power...
...Americans who run it call it Beggars' Island. Koje is a rocky, dun-colored dollop, 20 miles southwest of Pusan in the Korea Strait. On this island, in a cluster of barbed-wire compounds, the U.N. keeps its war prisoners-110,000 North Koreans and 17,000 Chinese-plus about 40,000 civilian internees...
...Rhine on several acres of apple orchards and woodland in Bad Godesberg, a suburb on the southern edge of Bonn. For HICOG headquarters, there is a seven-section concrete and glass structure with a 1,500-seat cafeteria and a 100,000-volume library. Four miles away stands a cluster of new two-story apartment houses, 458 apartments in all, each furnished down to the last curtain, dessert spoon and teacup. They range from tasteful bedroom, living room, kitchen combinations for bachelors to four-bedroom duplexes, and offer three kinds of decor: Greenwich Village modern, heavy German, or imitation French...