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...Gellhorn's opinion. The obsession for security and loyalty has discouraged many able people from researching for the government, be argues. Some of the men who were actually discharged later turned in significant scientific discoveries--for someone else. But, most important, the red tape which the government has strung up between scientists has stopped much of the exchange of information and ideas which has been the source of so many valuable discoveries in the past. Work must often be duplicated at different government establishments because of the difficulty of communication. Sometimes a discovery which is "classified" as a government project...
...enemy answer to Douglas MacArthur's call for surrender was quickly spotted by a U.N. plane. Winging far up North Korea, a U.S. 5th Air Force fighter-bomber, on a night intruder mission, saw vehicles rolling down from the Manchurian border. They moved in widely spaced clusters, strung over 100 miles of road. Clearly, with supplies from the Chinese and Russian comrades over the border, the enemy was feverishly building up a defense 80 miles north of the 38th parallel...
Probably the chief trouble with this picture is its obvious lack of continuity. It is so loosely strung together that it resembles a vaudeville show much more than a biography. But if you like technicolor vaudeville, you will like the film...
...understanding that the U.S. would negotiate a separate U.S.-Japanese agreement which would let sizable U.S. forces remain in Japan, as they will remain in Western Europe. Thus an independent Japan would continue to serve as the most important anchor of a U.S. Far Pacific defense necklace strung from the Philippines through Okinawa...
...high-strung Champion Larsen began to be visibly annoyed with the ball boys. Carried away by their private sentiments, the youngsters clapped for Schroeder (with the rest of the crowd) when he once broke Larsen's service. After that, the ball boys never seemed able to do the right thing, whether they chose to retrieve a netted ball for Larsen or let it lie. Meanwhile, Schroeder found his big serve, ran out the last three sets...