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...proposals tossed around during the warmup period of the campaign, two touch directly on the fundamental issue of U.S. security. These are Adlai Stevenson's urgings that 1) the U.S. take the lead in ending H-bomb tests, and 2) the U.S. take steps to end the draft. Last week President Eisenhower replied in two prepared statements. Excerpts...
...transistor was developed only eight years ago by three scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories. It amplifies electrical impulses just like the vacuum tube, but is free of the vacuum tube's limitations-fragility, bulkiness, high power consumption, short life. The transistor needs no warmup time, saves space, weight, heat and power, lasts 150 times as long, uses as little as one-thousandth the electric current...
...then, long-legged runners, stripped to their skivvies, lined up across the boards. The starter's gun cracked. Flying spikes and wide-swung elbows jammed up on the turns. But even before the winners' times were announced, the warmup boys were back on the track like late starters in the race just finished...
...pregame warmup, the gangling Negro looked awkward and ill at ease. He pushed his practice shots toward the baskets as if he knew they would miss; he shambled around the floor like a lost kid. But when the whistle blew for the University of San Francisco v. Loyola of the South basketball game in New Orleans last week, San Francisco's big (6 ft. 10 in., 210 lbs.) Center Bill Russell seemed the All-America ace he was cracked up to be. Before he left the game he scored 20 points. On defense he gave Loyola fits. The Southerners...
...placard (No. 49) that hung around her neck, and decided that she didn't have a chance. The other 61 finalists, who had beaten out the 5,000,000 original contestants in the annual Scripps-Howard spelling bee, were obviously going to be too good. Nevertheless, as the warmup period began at 8:50 a.m., Sandra determined to do her best. She took one last look at her parents in the audience, then firmly turned her attention to the business at hand...