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Broadcasting from the Met is one of radio's thorniest technical problems. "You don't have the static setup of a studio." says Technical Director William Marshall. "There is constant movement; hence, 16 microphones must be used to follow it." Mikes are constantly being tuned in and out, so that dial twisters at home actually hear fewer flaws than do boxholders of the Diamond Horseshoe...
...last official acts in Canada, retiring U.S. Ambassador R. Douglas Stuart tackled the thorniest current problem of Canada-U.S. relations: the vague but growing notion that U.S. investment capital is seizing control of the Canadian economy. In a blunt speech last week to the Canadian Club of Vancouver, he spelled out the contribution of foreign investors to Canada's economic expansion and paid his polite disrespects to those who seemed bent on stirring up trouble between good neighbors...
Intermittently all week John Foster Dulles and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee wrestled with one of the nation's thorniest and most persistent problems of diplomacy: how to get France to ratify the European Defense Community treaty. Although both forces had a common goal, the signals between the State Department and Capitol Hill were at times thoroughly confused...
...Thorniest problem: where to find the money for radio and the increasingly heavy expenses of television? The committee thought BBC should continue, for the time being, to collect annual fees from set owners ($2.80 for radio, $5.60 for TV). Flatly rejecting advertising on the British air, the seven-man majority said: "Sponsoring . . . puts the control of broadcasting ultimately in the hands of people whose interest is not in broadcasting but in the selling of some goods or services or the propagation of particular ideas...
...thorniest problem," gloomily concluded the report. "An untenable situation if both men and cattle continue to increase . . . Rational but brutal intervention [i.e., killing the cows] would be liable to cause violent reactions . . . would wound the Africans in their deepest susceptibilities...