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...Schreiber, it developed, had been brought to the U.S. in a Defense Department scoop-up of German technical men known as "Operation Paperclip." His job: consultant to the Air Force in a division with the grandiloquent title "Global Preventive Medicine." He was living comfortably in San Antonio with his wife and his son Paul, 17, a student at Alamo Heights High School...
...whether to back the European Army (see INTERNATIONAL). Acheson's supposed assurance was needed by the Faure government to quiet the Assembly's fears that the U.S. might leave France alone with a rearmed Germany on its hands. But the United Press quickly knocked A.F.P.'s "scoop" in the head with an official U.S. denial, and opponents of the government began to wonder whether the story was a fake to swing votes...
Closer to the heart, the new 1952 motorcars were being unveiled in a thousand showrooms across the land. Thoughts of steel shortages and skyrocketing prices went glimmering in the dazzle of chrome and the razzle of the "jet scoop hood," the "Quadri-Jet carburetor" and that glassy monument to planned frustration, the hardtop convertible. "It's loaded, so be careful," pleaded the Cadillac ads. "There's more power in that dynamic engine than you'll ever need-except for the rarest emergency...
...centuries British and Norwegian diplomats have politely quarreled over British fishing boats which sailed north to scoop cod out of the fish-rich" "underwater terraces" off Norway. Early...
...years I have never heard a newspaperman use the word 'scoop.'- One might say 'beat' to describe a four-minute advantage on a hot story, but scoop is a bad word. A worse word is 'game' to refer to our business, as in 'How do you like the newspaper game?' If this is a game it is a very strenuous sport, indeed, and I would not 'play' it for free...