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...milk. Once, on an automobile trip, he asked O'Connor's 18-year-old son to hold a jug of it between his knees. O'Connor's customers were delighted with the sample plating he produced; orders flowed in and competitors began a wild but fruitless campaign to discover Magee's secret. A few weeks ago O'Connor gleefully put it into commercial production, a process which involved running an electric current through a 300-gal. stainless steel vat full of the perilous fluid...
Then Russia yielded on two hotly disputed points, and developments came thick and fast. Since October 29, the Assembly had been bogged down in a fruitless discussion of disarmament and atomic control. Russia had championed the publication of armament statistics but had opposed an inspection system or the abrogation of the veto in matters concerning disarmament. Exactly why the Soviet delegation about-faced is not clear, and all sorts of motives from the most base to the most noble have been advanced; but on November 29 Mr. Molotov agreed to an international arms inspection, and five days later came...
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...After a fruitless questioning, U.S. Army Intelligence Chief Brigadier General Edwin L. Sibert, whose strong-arm raiding squads have manhandled many a German Communist inside the U.S. zone, took over the Russian prisoners. For 34 days they were held near Frankfurt, interrogated twice daily. The Russians later said that they were "accused impudently but without success of espionage." To General Kotikov, the Russian commandant in Berlin, the U.S. commander, Major General Frank A. Keating, denied any knowledge of the missing Russians. Kotikov decided to bring a little pressure...
...line with his argument that the problem is one of proper leadership and not a new system, he makes sis specific suggestions preceded by the statement that. "No one can deny that there was an abundance of poor leadership, but a recitation of grievances is fruitless...