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Report from Rainbow Land For millions of British newspaper readers, the U.S. is "Rainbow Land," a world of dazzling fluff and foolishness. The man who paints it that way is Britain's favorite Manhattan columnist, a sleekly combed English reporter named Don Iddon, who writes his weekly "Don Iddon's Diary" for the London Daily Mail (circ. 2,293,565) and a string of other papers on the Continent and through the British Commonwealth. Since British newspapers generally do an indifferent job of covering the U.S., many readers rely on Iddon's hodgepodge of gossip, pressagentry...
...father's good friend, President Theodore Roosevelt, in 1907. He went on the U.S. expedition which seized Veracruz, Mexico in 1914, and scouted inland disguised as a hobo. When the U.S. entered World War I, MacArthur, then a major on staff duty, conceived the idea of a "Rainbow Division of National Guard troops from different states; though his superiors were hesitant to send National Guardsmen to France, he went over their heads, sold the idea to War Secretary Newton D. Baker and went with the division to France...
...index of refraction, i.e., its ability to bend light rays. This property makes a stone glitter. Diamond's index of refraction is extremely high: 2.42. Titania's index is higher: 2.62 to 2.90. Even more important is its "dispersion," i.e., its ability to break white light into rainbow colors. Diamond disperses light twice as much as common glass does, but titania disperses it seven times as much. So far, titania cannot be made absolutely white (many valuable diamonds are not white, either), and it will never rival diamond in hardness...
...York Film Critics awarded Ways of Love its prize for the best foreign-language film of 1950. Warned by the cardinal's office against making the scheduled public presentation of the award on the stage at Radio City Music Hall, the critics discreetly moved the ceremony to the Rainbow Room in the RCA building. The Paris Theater was emptied twice after telephone tips were received that the theater would be bombed. One bombing threat was received by St. Patrick's. But as of this week, not even a stink bomb had gone off in either place...
...many isolationists refused even to agree that the Nazis were a menace to the U.S.; this time there were few Americans, outside of the Communists and fellow travelers, who had any doubts about who the enemy was or that he had to be faced somewhere, some time. In the rainbow shadings of opinion, Herbert Hoover's was closer to the center than some, but those who would cut or shorten U.S. ties overseas recognized a man who was generally on their side, and they exulted at his words...