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...Arab world last week reeled in a delirium of joy. Damascus Radio repeatedly shrieked, "Ahlan Bil Wahda!" (Welcome to union). When Syrian soldiers sent bursts of tracer bullets streaking against the night sky, the radio announcer hastily told his excited listeners that it was not revolution but jubilation. THE DREAM HAS COME TRUE! headlined a Beirut paper. Aleppo nearly exploded: its main streets became a sea of screaming humanity, and cars inched along honking their horns to the rhythm...
Credit to Boot. The counterpoint to all this is played by Chicago's economic activity. Its geography, from the city's birth, made Chicago a key factor in trade. As rail lines marked it like tracer bullets, it became a Goliath, took on even more muscle when the St. Lawrence Seaway opened still another economic channel...
...suspected pipe, a portable radio transmitter broadcasts a tone of the same frequency as the test note. An automatic electronic device compares the transmitted sound with sound picked up by the microphones. If the sound coming out of the ground proves to contain a significant amount of the tracer frequency, it cannot be blamed on leaking water or distant traffic or any other background noise. It can come from nothing but a nearby leak in the sound-filled gas pipe...
...Robert Wright and George Forrest) casts Alfred Drake in the role of Edmund Kean, the early 19th century Shakespearean tragic actor of Drury Lane fame. The hero pursues a nightlong quest for identity, and the theatergoer may wonder why the case was not turned over to Mr. Keene, Tracer of Lost Persons. This lavishly mounted, richly costumed wide-stage dramarama is the most elaborate fiasco of the new theater season...
...armored cars surrounded the Elisabethville post office' held as a communications center by a Tshombe garrison. In French and Swahili, demands were megaphoned that the garrison yield the building. The answer was the rattle of machine guns. The U.N. returned fire, and for two hours streams of red tracer bullets crossed each other in the predawn darkness. An Indian soldier was hit in the face; he screamed. A Katanga gendarme, hit in the belly, fell from a second-story window, picked himself up, staggered away with his entrails hanging out. The driver of an armored car was decapitated...