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...leave in Japan, or the big R of rotation. As for cease-fire talks, as one company commander said, "Look, Jack, that stuff's in another world from us. Sure, maybe it's in the back of our minds a little bit, but no more than a faint hope, if that much...
...farewell appearance in the U.S., Premier Mossadegh used Washington's National Press Club as a rostrum, and drew as big a crowd as had Clement Attlee. Everyone wanted to see the faint-prone wonder. About all that most got out of it was a glimpse of a man with a Durante nose and a gleam of cunning in his eye. Less than half the crowd stayed through his 40-minute speech in Persian. Those who waited for the translation got only a tired tirade against the British, and one Mossadegh proposal, to wit, that the U.S. should lend...
...first radio contact with the moon was made nearly six years ago by the U.S. Army Signal Corps at Belmar, NJ. (TIME, Feb. 4, 1946). The Signal Corps sent powerful radar pulses and got faint echoes in return. The Bureau of Standards' experiment, the first to send an actual long-distance message via the moon, may have a practical outcome. Ultra high frequency waves are not affected by the electrical disturbances in the atmosphere that sometimes black out other radio channels. With their great 'disadvantage (short, "line-of-sight" range) overcome by using the moon as a reflector...
College students, already lost in a swirl of conflicting draft and reserve programs, can take some faint measure of hope from the fact that the Universal Military Training plan which has just been submitted to Congress will almost surely not affect them. But those interested in the nation's struggle to get an adequate Army in a hurry will notice that UMT as proposed to Congress is no solution...
...bonuses for drillers and a golf course for his Negro servants. The Ladder became a favorite target for reviewers' darts, and Davis had to give away tickets to provide an audience. He squandered $1,300,000 on it before it closed in 1927 to the faint applause of 54 nonpaying guests...