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Action at Dawn. While Jimmy Byrnes's contradiction of Harry Truman was still echoing, Illinois' Republican Representative Harold H. Velde reeled into the controversy, firing subpoenas from the hip. At 5 o'clock one morning, after sitting up alone in his Pekin, Ill. home, Velde, with an eye on the headlines, issued subpoenas for Truman, Byrnes and Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark (who, said Brownell, also saw the FBI report at the time Truman saw it). Velde did not get approval of his Un-American Activities Committee for this action. Committee Counsel Robert Kunzig explained that...
Beyond the gaudy city limits the desert closes in, and beyond the funereal mountains in the distance lie the ghosts of boom towns past-Virginia City, Goldfield, Bullfrog and the others. Now & then the dice dance nervously and the windows jitter from the effects of a pre-dawn atomic blast at the AEC's test center 70 miles away. But there is no uneasiness, no sense of doom in Las Vegas even when mushroom clouds are rising beyond the horizon. Says a native Vegan: "It just couldn't happen. This is just the beginning...
...dawn, Nov. 12, one division of troops waited on Teheran's outskirts for orders, a mobile police reserve sat ready in trucks at central police headquarters, while in the expectant bazaar, blue-uniformed cops clustered thickly. As fast as troublemakers showed, the cops clubbed them, shoved them into cars, drove them off to jail. The police were indiscriminate but effective; the mob never got out of the bazaar. Casualties: two to five rioters dead, another 218 deported to bleak, boiling-hot Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf. General Dadsetan sat back at headquarters and smiled: "There...
...Before dawn one day last week, a program director and six technicians from KDYL-TV parked their mobile unit in the backyard of the County General Hospital in Salt Lake City and set up telecasting equipment in the infirmary's amphitheater. At 7 o'clock, when the sun had barely risen and the station's regular viewers were not expected to have reached for their selector knobs, Dr. Robert S. Warner stood before a camera and explained that the upcoming program was intended for doctors only. However, there was no way to keep the general public from...
...M.I.T. that Schwinger developed his owlish habits. The noise and bustle of the Radiation Laboratory was so intense during the day, that he preferred to work at night. He often worked from midnight to dawn--"there were fewer people around then, just the scrub women...