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...scientists warn that the new system is still young, but they suspect that it has great possibilities. One possibility: "picture-on-the-wall" television. A faint image projected by a small TV set would be amplified by electric current supplied to a flat screen. Other possibilities are in photography (taking pictures with very dim light) and in devices for "seeing in the dark...
Nowadays, when every bent fender and skinned knee becomes a statistic, American look at things differently. Hundreds of posters warn Junior about leaving his roller skates on the stairs, and the man who keeps oily rags in his cellar is little better than a criminal. Under the aegis of the National safety Council, the mass media have combined to produce a state of safety pyschosis...
Blunt & Plain. Addressing his own constituents at Woodford, Essex, Sir Winston was in the midst of a routine speech defending German rearmament and reminding them that he was the first to warn that the West needed Germany on its side against Russian aggression. "Even before the war had ended," he went on, "and while the Germans were surrendering by hundreds of thousands, I telegraphed to Lord Montgomery, directing him to be careful in collecting the German arms, to stack them so that they could easily be issued again to the German soldiers whom we should have to work with...
McNiff's staff plants to spend the next few weeks analyzing the number of times each student has been fined. "When we complete our survey we will warn some students and others will be denied borrowing privileges for a term," stated McNiff. "We have already taken this last step against a small number of people," be added...
...confused about its own strategic situation and unclear about its aims. A determined pressure group can play havoc in such a situation. To relate the story of how one such pressure group almost did, is not to set up a conflict of science v. the state. It is to warn that feeble top leadership can lead even the most powerful nations into mortal danger...