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...Success was achieved on the problems presented to the machine," Friedberg said, "but I am not satisfied by the way it came about." He noted that he is as close to achieving the ultimate goals of this research "as the first man who discovered that paper sticks to a comb was to discovering radio...
Even as Orval was basking in his new fame, pressures against him were building up. Across town from the executive mansion, U.S. District Judge Davies was reading a 400-page report prepared for him by the FBI, which had 50 agents comb the Little Rock situation. The report showed not a shred of evidence supporting Faubus' claim that Little Rock had been ripe for violence. Example: where Faubus had said Little Rock stores were selling out of knives and pistols ("mostly to Negro youths"), the FBI agents checked 100 shops, found that weapon sales had actually been below normal...
...Howard Johnson's restaurant chain doubled the number of high chairs and junior chairs as whole families bore down in record numbers to comb the menus-and take advantage of the rest rooms. The fanciest Miami Beach hotels waited hand and foot-and charged an arm and a leg-on folks from What Cheer, Iowa and Rough and Ready, Calif. Nearby motels turned away road-tired hordes at the rate of 50 a night. In Washington, D.C., tourists from Calamine, Ark. and Hurricane, Utah scrambled to the monuments and parks, bought foam-rubber hats and doused them with water...
...London this month Britons and Africans will sit down together to comb out the last snarls lying in the path of independence for the 31 million Africans of Nigeria. Their conversations have been speeded by the creation four months ago of the all-Negro Republic of Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast), whose U.S.-educated Premier Nkrunah has already moved into the residence of the departed British Governor General, leaving his old place to the Queen's new emissary...
...safety were ordered in Iran's mosques. Camel riders streaked into the desert bearing Iranian government offers of $65,000 for her safe return. Military escorts were ordered for all American vehicles in the area, and more than 1,000 soldiers and gendarmes were deployed to comb the bandit haunts. U.S. and Iranian planes crisscrossed the desert to warn the bandits the hunt was on and to give hope to Mrs. Carroll if she was still alive...