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...Russian; that salami tactics, a term originated in salami-rich Hungary, means slicing away opposition gradually; and that absolutism (absoliutizm) in Russia ended, once and for all, with the overthrow of the Czarist regime. There are also such formidable coinages as shtur-movshtina, based on the German word Sturm, which means a last-minute production spurt in a factory to meet a quota. The volume shows that one word can have different meanings when used by Communists in Russia or in the West. According to a Hungarian female Communist, for instance, the informer (donoschik) is "the mightiest and most honorable...
...promising new method uses an "electronic screen intensifier" developed at Johns Hopkins by Dr. Russell H. Morgan and Ralph Sturm. Primarily intended for brightening the faint images on X-ray fluoroscope screens, it is based on the image-orthicon tube used in television cameras. The tube scans (in 1,029 "lines" instead of the standard 525) the image and turns it into fluctuations of an electric signal...
Faint Shadows. In an ordinary TV setup this signal would be far too weak to be turned back into an image on the face of the picture tube, but Morgan and Sturm have learned how to amplify it enormously. They can put their apparatus to work watching a fluoroscope in a darkened room; it can see in light ten times too dim for human eyes. The faint shadows may be barely visible, but when they appear on the picture tube, they are bright enough to be studied in full daylight. This is important for doctors who examine patients by fluoroscope...
...keep in touch with the Order of Battle Section, Gardy struck up a romance with German named Sturm who worked there. One velvety night in November, Gardy offered to marry Sturm if he would steal for her information on the workings of the Order of Battle Section and the names of U.S. agents in East Germany...
...Instead, Sturm reported Gardy's proposition to agents of the U.S. Military Intelligence Division, who manufactured a bogus report on the Order of Battle Section and instructed Sturm to give it to Gardy...