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...committee announced that the prize in physics had been awarded to Russian Physicists Pavel A. Cherenkov, Igor I. Tamm and Ilya M. Frank. Without a trace of embarrassment over its inconsistency, Soviet officialdom beamed, and nobody charged (as they had with Pasternak) that it would amount to accepting a "handout" from "the enemy." All three Russians rank high in the esteem of,the outside world as well as in the Soviet scientific hierarchy. Dr. Tamm is often rated as the leading Soviet nuclear physicist, represented Russia at the recent Geneva conference on technical means for detecting atomic explosions...
VIRTUALLY everything that is known of the Soviet military is, to a large extent, what the Soviets want the world to know. But better intelligence and modern science are helping to make the West less dependent on the Soviet's handout information and on the gleanings of detail-dogging Western military attaches in Moscow. Examples...
...Handout. In Cleveland, when Mrs. Ray Maylin stopped for a traffic light and put out her left arm to signal a turn, a man grabbed it and stripped off $800 worth of jewelry...
...Republican congressional leaders out of their early-morning reverie. "It's a dole," said the President of the U.S. "I'm not going to stand for it." Ike was angered by the attempts of congressional Democrats to turn his unemployment-compensation bill into a loosely drawn federal handout to the states. And last week's humiliating defeat of the Democratic bill in the House of Representatives (see The Congress) was impressive evidence that Dwight Eisenhower-looking better and feeling better, more willing to fight for his own programs, more willing to use the big stick...
...urge to get the news first works like sandpaper on the nerve ends of the press. The tendency of big news to be bad news conditions the newsman to look for the clouds behind the silver handout. The two characteristics often produce a healthy combination of alertness and skepticism...