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...responding to treatment, and the President decided that he must spend the night near his son. He stretched out on a hospital bed set up in a doctors' lounge on the fourth floor. Shortly after 2 o'clock Friday morning, the phone next to his bed rang, and the President was told that there was no longer any hope. The President hurried downstairs, for the next two hours waited restlessly on a straight-backed wooden chair, occasionally rising to peer through a tiny porthole, where he could see five doctors, a nurse and a technician working desperately inside...
Favored Countries. For ten days, the green-and-gold Council chamber rang with debate over Mother Portugal's Africa-the largest European empire still intact, one which is plagued by poverty, rebellion, and (in the words of nationalists) "totalitarianism tempered by inefficiency." In a fascinating train of logic, the Africans argued that because they themselves are threatening to "liberate" the territories, Portugal's continued presence in them endangers the peace...
...biggest robbery since the Brink's case," cried one Texas resident of El Chamizal. But most Texans agreed that good borders make good neighbors. In Mexico City, jubilant paraders waved lighted torches, mariachi bands played wildly and cathedral bells rang...
During the next few days, tension wound tighter in Cambridge. Gunshots rang out in the night. Negro and white mobs glared at each other in the streets. Late in the week demonstrators again descended upon Dizzyland. This time Fehsenfeld was not standing in the doorway, and a few demonstrators walked inside. "You are not wanted in here," cried Fehsenfeld. "Understand, you come in here at your own risk." Then he locked his door. The demonstrators looked around-and got a grim surprise. Waiting in the restaurant were more than a dozen white toughs. They charged into the demonstrators and beat...
Right the First Time. The pioneers of nondestructive testing were the rail road brakemen, who used to tell if a steel car wheel was cracked by whacking it with a hammer to see if it rang true. United Air Lines technicians use basically the same principle today when they bombard jet turbine blades with electronically generated sound to see if the blades resonate at a frequency that indicates there is no danger of breakage. Westinghouse uses ultrasonics -super high-frequency sound waves - to probe right through big forgings in the rotors of its giant $2 million turbine generators and detect...