Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...armistice. The crated aircraft was grounded en route -reportedly at Okinawa-and the U.N. command announced that it was canceling its offer of $50,000 reward for additional MIGs. Furthermore, it offered to return this one to its "rightful owner" if the owner would step forward and present proof of ownership. The plane had already revealed enough secrets to compensate for the $100,000 it cost, but the Air Force rushed a team of test pilots and engineers to examine it and test its performance in the air. Though the Air Force had studied several MIGs part by part, this...
...former Abwehr officer (TIME, June 1). A British court which tried Klose's suit for mistaken arrest placed the blame for the error squarely on the Russians, but urged that Hans should be compensated for his sufferings. Said Hans: "I am grateful . . . That they paid is proof that there is good will." ¶Looking pale and wan, Russian Ambassador Anatoly Lavrentiev attended a diplomatic reception in Teheran, his first public appearance since he disappeared three weeks ago amid reports that he had shot or poisoned himself in despair over Communism's harsh setback in Iran (TIME, Sept...
...have to present its side. Last week, after 5,000,000 words of testimony, Judge Medina dismissed the suit "on the merits and with prejudice" (i.e., the Government cannot reopen the case, although it can appeal Judge Medina's decision to the U.S. Supreme Court). There was no proof whatever, said Medina, of any conspiracy, and therefore "the monopoly charges fall of their own weight." In all, the marathon trial had cost the bankers at least $4,000,000, and some estimates ran as high as $7,500,000. How much it cost taxpayers, nobody knew...
Since 1935, the Metropolitan General Hospital in Windsor, Ont. has been keeping careful follow-up records on all patients treated for cancer. Main conclusion, as reported by Dr. Norman A. McCormick in the current Canadian Medical Association Journal: "Ample proof that this disease can be cured." Because five symptom-free years are the medical yardstick for cure, the study stops after 1947. Items...
...about plans to convert Prague apartments into army quarters? Oatis admitted he had gone to Atwood with such a rumor, which he had heard at the Indian embassy, but only to check it with him, as any reporter would. The Communists seized on his talk with Atwood as additional proof of his espionage, hammered away at him for days with other questions, thrusting written confessions in front of him all the time. But "much of the answer" as to why he confessed, writes Oatis, "lies in a 42-hour interrogation that began at 4 a.m. on the sixth...