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Through the hot summer nights the radio voices continued to shrill defiance in accents as arresting as those of a muezzin calling the faithful to prayer from a minaret, with words as incendiary as a skyful of fire bombs. Nasser's propagandists were sure that they had the edge. Mused one contentedly: "Our radio is so successful because any Arab anywhere in the Arab world can simply turn the knob and hear the echo of thoughts that fill his own heart...
Jutting Conies. Newsman Barzini studied at Columbia in the 19203. worked for U.S. newspapers in the U.S.. is genuinely friendly toward America. He works with a very wide screen, and his camera cuts from Henry Ford to a Los Angeles lonely hearts club, from Ben Franklin to a skyful of paratroopers, sometimes with bewildering speed. There are the inescapable stock characters: the discontented taxi driver, the sharecropper with a washing machine who wonders whether he is really happy, the Hollywood starlet who drinks too much; and they are all forcibly made to stand for big concepts-fear, or uncertainty...
Ever since the Truman Committee swung a critical haymaker at inspection methods at Curtiss-Wright Corp. (TIME, July 26), the U.S. aviation industry has buzzed with one shocking fact, a skyful of fantastic rumors...
...Wake Island were repulsing Jap attacks I didn't say, "The Japs will never take Wake!" Later, when Wake was captured, I didn't say, "I told you so! We shoulda had 10,000 men on Wake! We shoulda ringed the joint with ships and had a skyful of planes...
...there a genuine casualty-the time-tested and best methods of dealing between nations, diplomatic usages, conventions, complacency, the Third International, the advocates of appeasement, the believers in Hitler as a bulwark against Communism, the believers in Communism as a bulwark against Hitler, newspapermen, diplomats, intelligence officers, liberals, a skyful of hopefuls lit by the lurid glare of reality. The roar was terrific. Gleefully in Berlin Nazis gazed, spellbound and wondering, at the Führer's mighty handiwork...