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From this tiny seed, sown a full 13 years before Hitler's accession, sprang the most perverted, rapacious and successful propaganda apparatus the world had ever known. By 1936, after just three years in power, the Nazi party owned two-thirds of all German news circulation outright and tightly controlled the rest. Not a line was printed without official approval, not an editor escaped the role of Nazi stooge. How this happened-and, more significantly, how easily it happened-is told in The Captive Press in the Third Reich (Princeton University Press; $6.50), by Oron J. Hale, 61, chairman...
...Given Word, the major achievement to date of Brazil's germinal cinema novo, sets forth the tragedy of a simple, devout man who batters out his life against an implacable apparatus of religious and secular authority...
...Democratic senatorial nomination from Ohio. Glenn slipped on a throw rug, while trying to hoist a mirror back onto its tracks in the bathroom of his Columbus apartment, and cracked the left side of his head against the bathtub. The blow injured his inner ear, disrupting the vital apparatus that governs coordination, equilibrium and balance (see MEDICINE). Glenn had hoped that he would recover in time to resign from the Marines and wage a whirlwind campaign against peppery but aging (74) Democratic Senator Stephen Young before Ohio's May 5 primary. But a panel of specialists who examined...
...delivered them all flawlessly that evening. She even overcame electronic hazards. Although she has a big voice, she wears a microphone in her cleavage to help get the low, soft songs up to the balcony. The batteries are taped to her bottom. On opening night in Boston, this apparatus began receiving police calls that were audible beyond the footlights...
...test such tiny apparatus, the disk is locked in a machine, and a probe with many electrical contacts in its tip is pressed against each circuit. Currents flowing through the contacts check out every element of the circuit, and if it fails to meet all requirements,' the probe marks it for rejection with a speck of dye. Then another machine makes checkerboard scratches between the circuits, and they are separated into "dice" by breaking the brittle disk along the scratches...