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...Harry Truman wanted a fight over the report charging favoritism and undue influence in RFC loans, the Senators were more than willing to oblige. As a prime example of what they were talking about, they dug further into the case of E. Merl Young (TIME, Feb. 12), a slender, nervous man with Democratic National Committee and White House connections (e.g., his wife is a White House stenographer). In their earlier investigations, the Senators had found Young to be "the individual named most frequently in the reports of alleged influence...
Cautious Combat. Typical of the sporadic fighting was the action on Hill 166, about four miles south of Hoengsong. A characterless little hump extending from the Wonju-Hoengsong road into barren stony mountains whose crevices gleam with snow, Hill 166 is distinguished only by a thin ruff of slender trees along the western slope, a high-tension wire standard on its crest, and a cluster of high Korean grave mounds on its southern slope...
Friends in Seattle remember Betty Graham as a slender, doe-eyed girl with a "restless mind." Majoring in psychology at the University of Washington, she was a topflight student and a Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority member with a normal interest in fun and parties. But she had no time for a steady boy friend or the small college talk of her friends; to her friends she seemed to be seeking a more intellectual interest...
Holmes, a slender, 39-year-old Negro, had loosened a piece of slate on the floor under the bunk in his cell. Then he chipped patiently through ten inches of concrete, burrowed diagonally downward for ten feet and leveled off under the massive stone wall. He kept digging, tunneled on under a dry moat, then turned upward again. He had 26 feet to go to reach the surface...
...practice, a slender pencil of X rays is shot through the material to be examined. The rays that pass through are detected by the crystal and turned into electric current. If the current is stronger than standard, indicating a void or flaw in the material, the apparatus rings a bell or flashes a light...