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...nervous, quick-moving, high-strung guy," said one of his close friends later. "He could no more stand calmly and confess than he could fly to the moon." Nevertheless, Vogeler stood almost motionless^ before the Budapest court and, in a voice as monotonous as the drone of a litany, confessed to having plotted against the Red regime...
...about nearby Paterson (pop. 150,000), of which the first three parts are finished. The Williams scheme in Paterson seems simple enough: let the eye rove and write down what it sees. Since the Williams eye is as unpredictable as any man's, the resulting images may be strung together like freight cars in the Erie R.R. yards at Paterson, but all in all they are pretty sharp images. On a Sunday in Paterson's park an old woman -lifts one arm holding the cymbals of her thoughts, cocks her old head and dances! raising her skirts...
Acheson's statement was the latest U.S. retreat from our policy of 1946, when we strung along with a UN resolution asking its members to pull their ambassadors out of "Franco Fascist Spain." Since then, U.S. military men have been advertising Spain as a fine and friendly beachhead on the continent, although they admit that if we are going to fight in Western Europe it will have to be on the Rhine, not the Pyrenees. A number of Southern senators have claimed that Franco is not such a bad man after all, especially since his country wants to buy their...
...mounted the 343 precarious steps to the observation platform just above the lookout of 1683, they still talked about "the Turks," but they meant the Russians. From St. Stephen's, on a clear day, Viennese could see the Red Hungarian border, 40 miles away. They knew it was strung with barbed wire, studded with police stations-as ominous as the camels and the silken tents of the 17h Century Turks...
...only. All three tubes scan the scene continuously, but an electronic switching device, turning their signals on & off 11.4 million times a second, allows each tube to transmit over the telecasting station only one-third of the time. In this way the "video signals" from all three tubes are strung together like trains made up of red, blue and green freight cars, and sent over the air on one wave band...