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...Supreme Court decision outlawing racial segregation in the public schools puts a strong searchlight on a chink in the moral armor of Southern liberalism. Southern liberals have thought it possible to define democracy and human equality as compatible with an enforced dual social structure. These men were willing gradually to give the Negro all that was right and just-but only within the conceptual framework of two parallel societies, one black, the other white. When the concept of segregation itself was challenged, the Southern liberals drew back in alarm. Who is a Southern liberal? The well-known names of Harry...
With Tryfus' patrol, I rode off in an armored halftrack, preceded by a jeep. The jeep's probing searchlight scanned the countryside. "Keep your heads down," said Tryfus as we approached a railroad bridge. Twice in the past year it had been mined. We waited for a train to pass, climbed aboard a gasoline-driven "handcar" and rolled down the track to inspect the railroad line. Suddenly, in the darkness, a pink flare leaped. We stopped and found a land mine, planted on the rails after the last train passed just a few minutes before...
Alaska Seas (Paramount) takes its audience salmon fishing under the Pole, but the cinematic catch is not spectacular. Robert Ryan sells one fishing syndicate out to another. For excitement, there is net raiding by night, skiff jousting on the black northern water with searchlight and rifle. In the end. Ryan loses what he wants (Jan Sterling) and gets what he deserves under an icefall. Sadly, the picture fails in 85 minutes to transmit a satisfying image of the "thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice." The icecap of the world, as shown here, is no more awesome than a refrigerator head...
...chance of winning the "comfort" competition with a couple of in genious accessories:1) two loo-lb. bags of sand, slung on either side of the motor, from which he could release a trickle for rear-wheel traction when the going got slippery, and 2) an ultraviolet searchlight on his car's roof, which, Cramer believes, helps neutralize the glare of oncoming headlights...
...short distance from the runway, a 240-watt searchlight circles slowly, its narrow beam arcing day and night across the base of low-lying clouds. Only 200 feet away, a parabolic mirror points overhead to gather the searchlight's reflected glow and focus it on a photoelectric cell. As the clouds rise or fall, reflections vary. In the radio shack, remote-reading indicators record the angle at which the searchlight beam bounces back. Measuring cloud height is then a matter of simple trigonometry...