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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nations maintain intelligence services outside their frontiers. It is the difference in the vast Soviet espionage apparatus, not only in scale but in kind, that makes this book an impressive document in a new field of scholarship and an important study of the enemy...
From the observatory perched on nearby Sacramento Peak, Dr. Edward Manring of the Air Force Cambridge Research Center followed the sodium cloud all night. The light affected sensitive instruments so strongly that it drove them off-scale. It will be at least a month before Air Force scientists can analyze their data and decide what the experiment has taught them. If the results are promising, many other sodium rockets may be shot into...
...week went by, the nature of the business submitted to the President gradually went up the scale of importance. With his signature on papers prepared and cleared by the Government departments concerned, the President approved a whole series of important appointments, e.g., that of Herbert V. Prochnow, 58, a Chicago banker, as Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. By week's end the President was well enough to hold his first important business conferences since he became ill, conferred twice with Vice President Richard Nixon (see below). This week he planned to confer with Secretary of State John...
...20th century, has been its strong design and sure draftsmanship. Nowhere is this more evident than in the long history of great German drawings. Now, for the first time, U.S. gallerygoers have a chance to judge the full sweep of the Germans' monumental achievement. The first full-scale exhibition of six centuries of German drawing ever put together in one show opened this week in Washington's National Gallery, first stop in a cross-country tour of four major U.S. cities. To show the whole range of German drawing, from medieval guild model books to 20th century Germany...
...conversations with Soviet jurists, Berman learned of large-scale legal reforms now underway in the U.S.S.R. The trend in these reforms, he notes, is in the direction of increased rights for the accused and greater leniency in sentences. Any crimes which can be construed as offenses against the State are still harshly punished, however, and there exists a pre-trial hearing in which the accused is without right to counsel. But reforms are being pressed even in these matters, Berman reports...