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...remarks about weekly papers, probably because we were not included. I don't suggest you applaud the Enterprise's editorial gambits: "Don't move the girls; move the school," and the fingerprinting of all Nevada clergymen. The first we won hands down, and the town of Searchlight dutifully moved the grade school 500 yards from the nearest crib to conform with the law. The latter matter is in flux. But I do suggest that we have more fun, give greater pleasure and outrage to more people and perform a far higher duty to civilization than...
...cliffs, poured shells point-blank into men and landing craft. The "average life" of the invaders on the beach was "measured in a handful of seconds." Author Thompson, a British war correspondent, ably describes "the shuddering chaos of ships and men," the massacres in the beam of a German searchlight, the tragic survivors, a few of whom were found wander ing days later in England, not knowing "who they were or where they were...
...PROMOTER THRIVES ON THE INDIFFERENCE OF THE CONSUMER CREDIT COMMUNITY; HE IS PHOTOSENSITIVE, AND IN THE GLARE OF TIME'S SEARCHLIGHT WILL SOON DISAPPEAR. PRICE A. PATTON CHICAGO...
...scientific shock troops toss rockets out of the atmosphere or study the performance of dangerous experimental airplanes. Some of these men seldom touch aircraft, "inhabited" or "uninhabited." With weird telescopic cameras, they photograph the trails of meteors, measure the night glow of the sky or the brightness of searchlight beams pointed toward the stars. All these methods give information about the high atmosphere, where future aircraft will...
Recent discoveries showed that on certain frequencies not all of the energy in the line-of-sight signal makes its escape into space. A small part of it is "scattered" downward. Electronics men compare this effect to the scattering of light from a searchlight beam. Not much light is scattered, but often the beam can be seen from a great distance when the searchlight itself is invisible...