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...range over Radar itself, which is limited to the distance at which it can get back a detectable echo of its initial signal. Thus American use of search receivers often deprived the enemy of the use of their own radar, particularly in submarines, because they shut it off to avoid detection...
...prayer and fasting. In Tel Aviv, angry protest meetings flared into open riots. Bands of youths with smoking torches set fire to Government offices, damaged stores, stoned buildings. In the center of the all-Jewish city Zionists fought a pitched battle with police, who retreated to avoid bloodshed. Five Jews were killed and 56 injured; 23 police and soldiers were wounded, mostly with homemade hand grenades...
...writing several hundred letters, phoned far & wide. Professional politicians snorted at such feminine amateurishness. But strangers, intrigued by the idea of a wife campaigning for a husband in the Philippines, offered money (which she refused), publicity (for which she was a natural), plus solid advice on how to avoid party tie-ups and how to soft-pedal the fact that her candidate wzcs a Republican in heavily Democratic Salt Lake...
...vaguest destination. Its hero is some times protagonist, sometimes symbol, sometimes Robert E. Sherwood, but - in spite of Actor Tracy's very natural, likable, occasionally vigorous performance-never quite a flesh-&-blood human being. One trouble with The Rugged Path is that it is not dynamic enough to avoid seeming emotionally dated. Another trouble is that Playwright Sherwood never really comes to grips with the liberal's precise role in the present world. He would have had a harder hitting play if, instead of leafing through the whole testament, he had concentrated on one good text. There...
...bureaucratic sub-chieftain could tell Senator Byrd without cracking a smile, the Government always needs more employes 1) in wartime to win the victory, 2) in peacetime to avoid war, 3) in depression to help the needy, 4) in prosperity to avoid depressions...