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...waves behave very much like light. In the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, which ranges from the extremely short cosmic rays (trillionths of an inch) and gamma rays (which are released in an atomic bomb) to extremely long electric power waves (6,000 miles), radio and light waves are almost next-door neighbors, though light waves are much shorter than radio...
...that was past. In New Canaan, Imogene was more interested in the present. She was frequently photographed in scanty swimming suits. She turned her dark, innocent eyes on next-door neighbor Charlie Milton, susceptible treasurer of a bolt company, father of three. New Canaan tongues began to clack...
...They noted the titles of her unexceptionable books (101 Greatest Mystery Stories, It's Always Tomorrow, Gone With the Wind). They got a careful eyeful of Mrs. Truman's oyster white corner bedroom and the President's big bedroom with the blue-canopied bed. In the next-door oval study, on the glass-topped desk, now knickknackless, they spied the 1945 annual of Independence (Mo.) High School, dedicated to Harry Truman...
...miles southeast of Paris, as he had used Le Mans (TIME, Aug. 21). Pivoting on Troyes, his columns had fanned out. One thrust had stabbed toward Alsace and the German Rhineland border, 130 miles to the east. Another had cut northeast and headed for Metz, in mid-Lorraine, next-door neighbor to Luxembourg and the Reich's Saar Valley...
Underneath the Roses. Up at 6 a.m. the next morning, he drove the seven miles to his office in the Federal Court Building in Kansas City. By now everybody knew that Harry Truman was back. Callers streamed into the large reception room, sat staring at pictures of Jim Farley, John Garner, and Garner and Truman, while they waited to pump the Senator's hand. All afternoon he kept jumping up to answer the telephone in the next-door office of Federal Judge John Caskie Collet. There is no telephone in the Truman office-the Senator says...