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...makes much of the fact that Alger Hiss was graduated from the Law School. His was a Roosevelt aide, he notes. Fulton then points out that there are many atomic energy specialists both here and at M.I.T. Linking this with the recent spy trials, he describes Cambridge as a "focal point for subversive activity." M.I.T., he concludes, has its share of "fellow travelers...
...Focal points for travel this summer will be the national festival in Britain and Paris's celebration of her 2,000th birthday...
...camera itself does not move; mounted rigidly in the airplane, it is eight feet high, has a focal length of 48 in., weighs about 1,500 Ibs. Protruding below the plane's belly is a 90-lb. prism that rotates across the airplane's line of flight (see diagram). The prism, acting like a swinging mirror, throws into the camera lens a constantly changing view of the ground below. First the prism looks at the horizon on one side; then its glance sweeps under the airplane, then up to the horizon on the other side...
...full-color photographs and two-dimensional maps. The area covered by this report, the Middle East, contributes little bold type to today's headlines. Reason: blessed with the initiative, the Communists chose to put Korea in the news rather than Iran. Overnight, their next choice will become the focal point for all news-gathering agencies...
Another person unofficially associated with the J.R.C., Mrs. William H. Riecken, Radcliffe '49, has disappeared from the focal scene and is reported to have gone to California where her husband had gotten a teaching...