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Confident that a watchful ear can pick up real news beats, Turner listens for statements of government policy, reports on domestic affairs in other countries, and foreign attitudes about America (on Radio Sofia, "you actually hear them calling us louses"). Most of all, he tries to keep up with the...
Less than two months after Pearl Harbor, Dulles was back in Government service, this time with what was to become the Office of Strategic Services. A few months later he headed off for Switzerland by way of Spain and unoccupied Southern France. He very nearly failed to make it. Alarmed...
"Is it not an art," he asks in a quaint prose, "to deceive a trout with an artificial fly-a trout that is more sharp-sighted than any hawk and more watchful and timorous than your high-mettled falcon is bold?" Deceiving trout with worms is also an art, the...
But because police were ever watchful, even this line usually was delivered as nervously as though the gallant were trying to slip the senorita a love letter in church. At last, it got so that the most inspiring girl could move past a city block of curbside Romeos and hear...
The antennae brought more than voices. In a darkened end of the trailer, newsroom for the X-3's telemetering circuits, engineers stared intently at vertical lines of light on the faces of two oscilloscopes. The "green worms" were connected by electronics with 186 instruments tucked into the X3...