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...Pineau and Dulles could register agreement on only three specifics: 1) the Middle East crisis should be handled through the U.N.; 2) foolproof inspection and controls must precede disarmament; 3) NATO cooperation in nonmilitary fields should be improved. Pineau got in ten minutes in Walter Reed with the President (who asked about the situation in Algeria), and then drove downtown to address an audience of members and guests of the National Press Club...
Like subway turnstiles and slot machines, the telephone is a traditional target for those Americans with a yen for outwitting the machine age. Before science developed the foolproof pay phone, nearly every college boy knew how to make it disgorge a tinkling stream of nickels. Last week Illinois Bell Telephone Co. ruefully explained another game that costs it as much as $400,000 annually: the free call, in which by various stratagems thousands of callers in toll booths and at home use the phone company's wires without ever paying a cent. At Bell's urging, the Illinois...
...McGinnis, 52, the eleventh member of the gang, took the pea jackets, caps, false faces and about $100,000 in new and traceable currency away to burn, and the others dispersed (McGinnis, the gang treasurer, had spent the evening in a restaurant, talking to a detective and establishing a foolproof alibi). Two months after the crime, police found the remains of the truck, carefully minced by an acetylene torch and buried in a dump near O'Keefe's home...
...Europe-wide security arrangement based upon a careful balancing of conventional arms on either side of the Iron Curtain, plus a continuing search for a safe and foolproof way to limit, then prohibit atomic weapons...
This Is Your Life provided the reportorial narrative. The show, blatantly corny and specializing in unabashed sentimentality, reaches far to pluck at the heart strings, and frequently succeeds. Its formula is close to foolproof. It selects some outstanding person, then gathers friends and relatives to fill in his life story and pay tribute. Never a bore, the show often verges on questionable taste, just as often raises a skillfully engineered lump in the viewer's throat...