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...party, under General Secretary Stalin, had need of an engineer such as young Malenkov. The Communist apparatus was grinding and bumping under the pressure of Old Bolshevik rivalry and suspicion. While Stalin cut down and purged his rivals, Malenkov served him as personal secretary and snooper. The student technician of power had charge of all party dossiers in the middle and upper levels. He developed an astonishing memory, became a walking file from which Stalin could extract at any moment whatever record was needed to help along the ruthless struggle for power...
...recent competition to determine potential executives, teams of a camera technician, a director, and a production man were organized to make two-and-a-half-minute shorts. The staff for the production is headed by Harrison L. Blair '51, producer; Leo Bersani '52, director; Harold Klinger '51, cameraman. Veterans of the first enterprise will aid in an advisory capacity...
Birdseed & Bandages. Radio Technician Godfrey was sent to a Coast Guard Depot outside Baltimore. Searching for some more interesting avocation than drinking needled beer, he turned up on an amateur hour at station WFBR. With his banjo and one-octave voice, he landed a birdseed company as a $5-a-show sponsor. He also picked up another chore-introducing the speeches of Maryland's late, belligerently anti-dry Governor Albert Ritchie. When Godfrey was offered a full-time job on WFBR, the governor helped him get his separation from the Coast Guard...
Another Dimension. During the days that followed, there were other discussions and other lectures skillfully guided by the Akademie's directors, bespectacled Adolf Wischmann and husky Johannes Doehring. For their technician "students" they steered the talk again & again to the relation between religion and technology. Deliberately inviting controversy, a Hamburg theology professor suggested that technology was a threat to mankind. Asked a young toolmaker: "How would the professor have come so speedily from Hamburg to address this Christian meeting if technicians hadn't developed cars and railroad trains?" "The professor is right," said a shop foreman. "We must...
...station's first technician stated that the "network realized that there were misadjustments in its tuning units. "What we want to find out now," he continued, "is to what extent our excess radiation output is caused by these misadjustments or by factors inherent in our system...