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...Legion or McCarran definition of the word. But he is not a Communist. He has supported the United Nations cause in Korea and strongly objects to the lack of civil liberties in Communist Russia. Two months ago, he wrote to the McCarran Subcommittee on Internal Security, "For the one-thousandth time, I completely and categorically deny that I am or ever have been a Communist...
...letter, dated August 12, to Senator McCarran's Committee on Internal Security, Lamont wrote, "For the one-thousandth time I completely and categorically deny that I am or ever was a Communist...
...Fairbanks' gadget, which consists chiefly of a microphone, a tape-recorder and a playback amplifier, delays the reports on their way to the brain. Normally a speaker hears each syllable about a thousandth of a second after he has spoken it. By adjusting his apparatus to introduce delay, Dr. Fairbanks can lengthen this interval as much as he wants to. He can also make the sounds from the amplifier so loud that they drown out the sounds that reach the brain through the normal channels...
Shortly before Election Day, surgeons at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore performed their thousandth "blue baby" operation. The technique, which has saved many more thousands of lives elsewhere, was developed at Johns Hopkins by two famed doctors, Alfred Blalock and Helen Taussig, in a long course of experimenting on dogs. The dogs got the same care, the same anesthesia, as would a human patient. Not all the dogs died-if they had, the experiment would have been a failure. For example, Anna, now a laboratory pet, is as well today as 3^-year-old Gene Haskins...
...making him a full professor in 1943. Zionist circles had honored him too. In 1946 when friends took up a collection to buy Gus a gift for his work in Zionism, he asked them to spend the money for trees for Israel. Last fall Gus learned that the ten-thousandth tree had just been planted in a section of Israel's national forest named...