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...sudden, it seemed, the much-talked-of "peaceful coexistence" was busting out all over. In the U.S.S.R. last week, Pravda displayed a photograph of President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon in a smiling huddle with First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov at the opening of the Soviet fair at the New York Coliseum. In the U.S., newspapers showed nine camera-laden U.S. Governors traipsing gaily through Moscow and Leningrad and Kozlov sightseeing around Manhattan with New York's Mayor Robert Wagner. While New Yorkers were jamming into the Coliseum to look over Soviet wares ranging from Sputnik models to calendar...
...three months black-gowned agents loitered over Armand's bookstalls, in the Paris suburbs of Fontenay-sous-Bois, watching their prey. Others, pretending to collect alms in the neighborhood, used minicameras to photograph his visitors. D.S.T. men with movie cameras filmed his regular rendezvous with another man in Paris' lonely Rue Botzaris. They noticed that before each clandestine meeting he chalked the letter k on a nearby wall...
...Army has ordered a device that will print photographs on the ground moments after they are taken by a reconnaissance plane in the air. Made by Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp., the airborne unit is basically an instant-processing device, which produces negatives seconds after the camera's shutter has clicked, and a telemetry scanner, which transmits the negative to the ground-all contained in a 45-lb. package about the size of two shoe boxes. The ground unit picks up the televised signal, produces a finished photograph in less than one minute after the signal is received...
Heuvelmans believes that many parts of the earth have been explored so superficially that they may contain all sorts of creatures unknown to science. Explorers glimpse them, perhaps bring back a few strips of skin or a blurry photograph, and are greeted with skepticism or accused of attempting a hoax. The pygmy hippopotamus of West Africa has been seen repeatedly since the 1840s. Skulls were brought out for study, and a young one actually lived several weeks in the Dublin zoo. But for 50 years authorities refused to accept it as a real and new genus...
...keep legal drugs out of illegal trade, let addicts have no more than two days' supply at a time; fingerprint and photograph them to prevent registration at different clinics under aliases...