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...mixture of irritation and puzzlement at the so-called "Radford plan" for emphasizing nuclear strength over manpower, began to insist that Europe can no longer rely on the U.S. and must unite to save her own skin (TIME, Oct. 8). Last week, still beating the unity drum, Adenauer made a concrete proposal which he said had the concurrence of French Premier Guy Mollet. The proposal: a general scheme to convert the now-toothless Western European Union into an organization empowered to coordinate the foreign and military policies of member nations...
...Force Secretary Harold Talbott resigned after evidence that he had made telephone calls and written letters on Air Force stationery to drum up business with defense contractors for the New York efficiency engineering firm in which he was a partner...
...Whirling Drums. The transmissions began at 4 a.m. E.D.T. from Manhattan when special page proofs of the Times's regular international edition* were placed on a revolving drum. At the same time, in a small Market Street office in San Francisco, another revolving drum bearing page-sized photographic film was made ready to roll. As the drums spun in unison 1,500 times a minute, electronic equipment carried impulses along the transcontinental circuit and converted them back into light, forming an image of the page on the film. A four-man technical crew supervised by Timesman E. Clifton Daniel...
Knockout Performance. In Hamlin, N.Y., during a firemen's parade, Drum Major Irving Gillam gave his baton an especially high toss, watched for it to come down, saw sparks fall instead as the baton fused to a 5,000-volt power line, knocked out village electricity for an hour and a half...
...words. First as students, then as instructors at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, they experimented with piano sound by placing all kinds of objects among the strings, a method pioneered by Composer John Cage, who called it "prepared piano." In 1948 they succeeded in producing a thudding drum effect (by shoving pieces of rubber between the strings) and used it in their version of Ravel's Bolero. Their latest effort is even weirder. The tunes in Soundproof (Greensleeves, Baia, Lover) contain effects that resemble giant rubber bands being plucked, the click of a tack hammer, xylophones...