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There is a simple alternative to all this - "better, but still not perfect," in Stanley Kubrick's words - which involves masking the top and bottom of the transmitted TV image and showing the film in what the industry calls "the letterbox format." The image stretches from one side of the screen to the other, leaving a narrow black border at top and bottom and losing only the extreme sides of the frame. This technique reasonably preserves the director's original compositions. European television has been using such masking for years, but American television has remained leery...
...Soviet embassy in Stockholm. Through switches in Soviet contact men and changes in his own jobs Enbom kept the secrets flowing to Moscow. There were elaborate cloak & dagger arrangements -code messages that looked like simple shopping lists, a rusty tin can hidden in an isolated spot as a "letterbox," hairpins hung on a wire fence in Stockholm in various shapes to convey various messages. To improve communications, one Russian agent equipped Enbom with a radio transmitter, which unfortunately burst into flames the first time the key was touched. To cover up for his numerous espionage trips, Enbom explained...
...General Lucius D. Clay has been inveighing against recently. Said the U.S.-licensed Frankfurter Rundschau: "Certain [Germans] smile when they read Die Neue Zeitung, as they can find there everything they think and do not dare to say . . . Whether they read the column called 'Observer' or the letterbox 'The Free Word' they will always find a sarcastic criticism of the American occupation or the Anglo-American occupation policy...
Brilliant were the tactics which allowed Lieut. Carrington to choose the Miraflores-Pedro Miguel letterbox for his correspondence. Off the Pacific entrance of the Canal had maneuvered the two opposing fleets, the attacking Blacks, 99 ships strong, and the defending Blues, with 75 ships. From Hampton Roads was steaming a theoretical supporting fleet ready to go through the Canal to the aid of the Blues. The issue: Could the Blacks bomb the Canal's locks, thus closing navigation before the reinforcements could arrive...
...paper are: F. S. Fish, Roscoe Conkling, Me Too, U. S. Grant, Sarah Bernhardt, F. S. Fish, Anna Dickinson, Jumbo, Robinson Crusoe, F. S. Fish, C. J. Guiteau, Tom and Jerry, Madame Rentz, F. S. Fish and O. W. and J. The petition has been placed in the faculty letterbox, and, with such distinguished support, will probably be granted at once. - [Cornell...