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...grainedness) of photographic films, plates and papers. It may never be used for practical microfilming. It is too hard to focus, and it must be shielded from even faint vibration by enclosing it and the object to be photographed in a heavy metal cylinder suspended by springs. If a stray speck of dust wanders onto the film it might blot out half a book...
...items, had them photostated, and arranged them into his nugget book. Included in it are quotations from men as varied as Churchill, De Gaulle, Lincoln, Asoka (early apostle of Buddhism), Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Milton, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and Will Rogers, as well as some stray doggerel that happens to appeal...
...General Lundula sneaked out the back way aquiver with fear, and with all insignia of rank carefully removed. At Lumumba's official residence, Ghanaian troops put the Premier under heavy guard. Next day, Mobutu's men raided Lumumba's headquarters, arrested 26 staff members plus a stray Senator, drove them off and locked them up in a hangar at an old airport outside town...
Well-tamed New Yorkers have long since learned that to stray beyond the floodlights in the city parks at night is to invite a holdup, a mugging or worse. But Columbia University Professor Karl H. Menges, 52, who has seen some wild places in his time, thought he was in a civilized country as he took his evening walk one night last week past Morningside Park, which borders the Columbia campus. Half a dozen teen-agers stopped him, asked for a match, then as he hesitated beat him over the head with a heavy board and knocked him bleeding...
...Belgian paratroops had been expected to display an iron discipline, in contrast with the disorderly and irrational behavior of the mutinous Congolese troops of the Force Publique. But the paratroops soon got out of hand. Storming their way into Leopoldville after cap turing the airport, they beat up any stray Africans they encountered, disarmed and arrested Congolese troops. When Congo Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko pro posed a truce, with joint patrols from both sides to police Leopoldville, the paratroops indignantly refused to sit be side "those black apes" in military jeeps. They were trigger-happy and arrogant. TIME Correspondent...