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When conservatives and ultra-conservatives turn to politics, they do so with determination. In Wisconsin, they tightly control the local Republican apparatus in many areas. Just last spring a Republican caucus in one of Wisconsin's ten Congressional districts passed resolutions which opposed the graduated income tax, called for the defeat of the civil rights bill, and asked for a full-scale investigation of the State Department" in the best McCarthy tradition...
...Berlin in the '30s, watching Sally Bowles salute the morning with raw eggs and gin, he smiled sadly, "I am a camera." There was no question of love or hate, of reaction; the sensitive recording device functioned, but the rest of the apparatus was missing. Years later in California, that boneyard for aging British intellectuals, Isherwood's camera still clicks away. Its subjects are less often street scenes than the landscapes of the mind, but the limiting flaw persists. The camera now surveys a middle-aged British homosexual, a professor of literature whose roommate has been killed...
...valuable for any kind of hasty action, the kinescope films taken directly from the tubes were put in a refrigerator for safe storage. Then the magnetic tape was fed to an apparatus that produced pictures of slightly lower quality. It was some of these tape-recorded scenes that were shown immediately to scientists and a few hours later released to the public...
...latest contribution to submarine meteorology was made by modified Swallow buoys,* which are 13-inch aluminum spheres ballasted to sink until they reach water of a selected density. Crammed with apparatus that reports its observations with sonic pings, the buoys can be followed accurately through the depths. They can communicate with each other and measure their distance apart; they can be instructed by a coded sonic signal and told when to drop ballast, rise to the surface, and call by radio for pickup...
...than donors. But they were wrong. Three men were admitted to the medical center in Jackson with incurable brain injuries-one from a fall, one from a tumor, and one from a suicidal gunshot wound. Each of the doomed men was kept alive for a while by artificial breathing apparatus, and any one of them might have been a suitable donor if there had been an equally suitable recipient handy. But even if they had had a dying heart patient on whom to try a transplant, Dr. Hardy and his team felt that switching off the artificial respiration...