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...Frontier. The only solution was to pull back from Göring's finest bases to safer territory on the west bank of the Rhine, far enough away from the Iron Curtain to give allied planes a chance to get into the air before being overrun by Russian Panzers. Slowly, painfully slowly, NATO began building a brand-new air frontier, 100 to 250 miles farther back, in France and the Low Countries...
...reason why such things happen, says the Bulletin, is that the McCarran Act makes consular officers the judges of scientific visitors. The consuls realize their inability to estimate a scientist's politics, but they also realize that a no is safer than a yes. If they let the wrong man in, he may be publicly denounced for some fleeting contact with Communism 20 or 30 years ago. Then the consul's career might be in danger. Thus, it is prudent to delay or refuse the visa...
...been extremely successful in squelching legislation in the medical field for the last ten years. Perhaps it is this flush of victory that makes the group jump out of the grandstand and start campaigning. Undoubtedly, the AMA would feel safer with Washington Republican. Ever since it opposed Woodrow Wilson's proposal for extended small pox innoculation as "socialism," most of its targets have been Democratic proposals...
...requirements for a jet plane to replace present airliners, said Rentschler, are: it must 1) carry more passengers than present liners (the Comet now carries 36 to 44 passengers compared to 58 to 75 in a Constellation), 2) be even safer and more dependable, and 3) be as cheap to operate. "In the light of these requirements," said he, "no jet transport here or abroad . . . will be available prior to 1956 except in prototype form . . . The building of a prototype transport and its translation into a production airplane so that it will be available in quantities sufficient for fleet replacement...
...believed to control reason and judgment. It should only be used as a last resort, in desperate cases when all else has failed. But Dr. Freeman, who once said, "I won't touch them unless they are faced with disability or suicide," now believes that "it is safer to operate than to wait." Lobotomy, he insists, "should be considered in a mental patient who fails to improve after six months of conservative therapy...