Word: compassable
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Toledo's Commodore Perry Hotel had never seen a convention quite like it. On the hotel's ballroom floor one evening last week, some 50 men took off their shoes, stepped reverently on to white sheets and prostrated themselves toward Mecca (compass bearing from Toledo: 100° true), chanting, "Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar" (God the Almighty). Blackrobed imams read from the Koran and repeated with the faithful, "La Ilaha Illal-Lah" (There is no God but God). The second annual convention of the International Moslem Society, with some 500 Moslems gathered from 45 states and five...
When the patrol begins, Sheldon doubts that he has more than a few coppers of capital left. Nonetheless, he prepares for his job like the technician he is, studying the terrain from an observation post, taking compass bearings, making map notations, and darkening his face and hands with cocoa paste...
...moonless night is"seven men wide"; it is so dark a man could be two yards from a crouching figure and not know it. Moving toward the enemy by compass, instinct and hope, the patrol covers 3½ miles in 3¼ hours. With another mile to go, Sheldon is so obsessed with the task of getting there that he hardly thinks of what he must do when he arrives. The Germans take care of that. Spotting the patrol, they open up. The fire is that of a battalion; by serving as a target, Sheldon gets the information...
...member of a privileged profession. The press has not objected to congressional investigation in the past (TIME, Feb. 4, 1952). especially since journalism has had its share of Communist infiltration. The Post's editorials, under Editor Ted Thackrey, later editor of the now-defunct pinko Manhattan Compass, had followed the party line intermittently, and the paper still has its share of ex-Communists and onetime fel low travelers on its staff. But it was under Editor Wechsler that the Post became consistently antiCommunist...
...lifelong project: the unified-field theory (an attempt to integrate the phenomena of gravitation, magnetism and electricity into one law). He then recalled a simpler discovery made a long time ago: the moment that decided his future as a scientist. It was, he said, the sight of an ordinary compass at the age of five. One of his birthday presents, another honor: the new $10 million medical school to be built by Yeshiva University in The Bronx will be called the Albert Einstein College of Medicine...