Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true that in many cases to present the board with full details and witnesses would be to reveal secret FBI methods and perhaps even to lay open an entire chain of counter-espionage. In such cases, as Associate Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger declared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine recently, "the FBI must, choose between the chain and the conviction." For it is true, in every case, that the government's loyalty program, unless it provides stringent safeguards for the individual, will pass over the line of necessary security and become just that sort of unnecessary purge that Americans...
...thing a radioactive world needs is a good "atom-sized" Geiger counter. Last week the University of Chicago proudly displayed a handy, hip-pocket model. The new gadget is so easy to read that anybody can tell when his surroundings become dangerously radioactive...
Unlike the standard Geiger counter, which may record radiation by a series of clicks, the pocket model does its recording on a lighted scale. The user just presses a button; if the fiber moves across the scale, he can be pretty sure that he is being bombarded by unhealthy radiation...
...Forum, John G. Winant, ex-ambassador to Britain, warned that such "unprecedented profits in combination with the high cost of the necessities of life" created dissension at home and conflicted with U.S. foreign policy, thereby comprising a "new danger to private enterprise here and peace abroad." Many a profit-counter, busy with his books, was hardly bothered by such lofty considerations...
...Counter-Revolution. In Chicago, Lester Elvin Brown explained to cops that he was "trying to revolutionize criminal methods" when he handed a cafe cashier a note reading: "Madam, this is a holdup. On your shoulders rests the responsibility for the aversion of a tragedy...