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...Washington last week, with a somewhat sheepish grin, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles confided to his weekly press conference that he too was a diplomat who owned a rod. Dulles was saying that he did not object to fingerprinting-a bureaucratic procedure that strikes Europeans as degrading. Why? Because he himself had submitted to fingerprinting every year to get a permit for his .38-cal. Smith & Wesson, serial number 242332. "What do you use a revolver for?" gasped one of the reporters. "Fortunately, I haven't had to use it at all," replied John Foster Dulles. He explained...
...dial on the instrument board. The same radio pulses are simultaneously performing a more complicated process. To determine direction, the ground beacon's pulses pass through a revolving (15 revolutions per second) antenna system that relies on two concentric cylindrical rings, one mounted with a single rod-shaped element, the other fitted with nine rods. Whirling around the antenna core, these rods, set at different modulations, "tag" (modulate) the signals as they go out. Every time the inner rod passes "zero" (north), a regulating signal is transmitted. In a sense, this signal is Tacan's compass needle...
Writers Chayefsky, Reginald Rose, Rod Serling and half a dozen others are facing the new challenge, but because of TV's commercial limitations and the fact that it rests on a billion dollar advertising industry, no writer can have an easy time. A writer is dictated to, in a degree, by advertising agencies and sponsors about what he may write. Example: on a drama show sponsored by a milk firm, the customer may not always be right, but she is always good. Mothers buy milk and, therefore, on these shows there are no bad or even neurotic mothers...
...Black Rod! Black Rod!" rang the cry down Westminster's vaulted corridors. The Commons' heavy oak doors clashed shut ahead of the Queen's messenger as they had for 300 years at that cry, in a traditional assertion of independence dating from the time that Charles I invaded the House of Commons with soldiers in an attempt to arrest Hampden, Pym and three other members in 1642. Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, Lieut. General Sir Brian Horrocks-once one of Ike's corps commanders in World War II but now rigged up in kneebreeches-knocked...
During the two-day affair, the local drivers took three of the hill climbing events. Pete Magie (Flat) won the Class H; Jeff Barach (Volkswagen) Class G; and Rod Nerney (Ford Thunderbird) Class...