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ARMED FORCES Cut-Rate Defense "The day is coming," said Chairman Brien McMahon of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy last week, "when the quantity of atomic weapons we are capable of making could be sufficient, beyond any question, to serve as a paramount instrument of victory." Within three years, he told the Senate, atomic bombs could be flowing into the stockpiles at mass-production speed, each one costing less than a heavy tank (about $200,000). By concentrating on the atomic weapons, said McMahon, the U.S. could safely cut back its conventional defenses and buy security for half...
Into the long squabble over color television a husky new contender shouldered its way last week. Chromatic Television Laboratories, an affiliate of Paramount Pictures Corp., brought forth a new, all purpose television tube which can: 1) receive any kind of color television that has been proposed so far, including both the CBS and RCA systems; 2) receive ordinary black & white broadcasts; 3) switch itself automatically from one system to another. The tube's inventor: Nobel Prizewinner Ernest O. Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, who built the first model in his Berkeley (Calif.) workshop...
Feinberg is alleged to have taken a room in the Paramount Hotel where the Bradley team was living during its stay in New York, and, posing as a Camden. N. J. businessman, made contact with some of the players...
Feinberg is alleged to have taken a room in the Paramount Hotel where the Bradley team was living during its stay in New York, and, posing as a Camden. N. J. businessman, made contact with some of the players...
Peking Express (Hal Wallis; Paramount) sets out on a topical excursion into Communist China, but quickly turns into a typical train-borne melodrama, running on the same tracks as 1932's Shanghai Express. For all its world-shaking airs and its batting around of ideological platitudes, the picture carries (and is carried by) the standard load of sinister passengers scheming at cross-purposes, and the hero's burp gun has the last word...