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Both arguments could lead to disaster. The timorous are arguing, in effect, that peaceful citizens should not carry guns in bandit-ridden country because possession of guns always leads to gunplay. The optimists forget the paramount fact of 1951: the reason that the West feels less pressure is not because Stalin has turned kindly, but because the West has more arms...
...issue involved is paramount. The voice of the people must be heard...
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...
...Green, Blue. The basic plan of the Lawrence-Paramount tube looks so simple to the experts that-if it really works out-it will have inventors all over the country kicking themselves for not having thought of it first. Just behind the curved face of the tube is a flat glass "viewing plate" on which are printed fine parallel lines of colored phosphors, i.e., materials that glow in red, green or blue when struck by speeding electrons. The lines are arranged in groups, each containing one line of each color, with 450 groups in all. The plate also carries...