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...civilians who attended the atomic tests at Bikini. Called to testify before a grand jury and in the second Hiss trial, Inslerman confessed nothing, pleaded the Fifth Amendment's protection. But in Inslerman's Schenectady home, the FBI found a Leica whose imperfections matched the scratch marks on Chambers' famed pumpkin film...
Abrupt and unsmiling, Dulles rammed a pencil point into his scratch pad. "But who is this Chou En-lai whose addition to our circle would make possible all that so long seemed impossible [see box]? He is a leader of a regime which gained de facto power on the China mainland through bloody war . . . which became an open aggressor in Korea . . . which promotes aggression in Indo-China...
...they did not know, and what the U.S. would not tell them, was the practical engineering technique of making fissionable material out of uranium ore. The Ministry of Supply has now published a slim, illustrated booklet, Britain's Atomic Factories, which tells what the British, starting almost from scratch at near wartime pressure, have accomplished...
...heavy attack from the powerful and conservative Trades Union Congress, and have lost strength in recent years. But as one railway unionist warned: "They'll always be a danger, even if there are only a dozen of them, because wherever there's a pimple, they'll scratch it into a rash." And it is not so much their numbers as their strategic placement and their high-handed use of power that gave cause for alarm. Comrade Foulkes, had he wanted to, could have called out the entire E.T.C. from every power station, plunging the country into darkness...
...Diego found himself with exactly 25^ to his name. He paid a dime for a ride to the top of the Woolworth Building (then the world's tallest), and gaily flung the other 15^ over Manhattan's skyline. Says De Diego: "I wanted to start from scratch...