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Frederick Fox's scenery was extremely effective. The Russian prison looked dark and formidable, and three tiers of cells were erected on the stage. The cell walls were made of a material which would become transparent with the use of lights, so that flash-backs, showing Rubashov moving from his 1937 cell directly to a pre-Revolutionary meeting, could occur without changing scenery or lowering the curtains...
...Magic Cell. Fluorochemicals are nobody's monopoly, but Minnesota Mining believes it has the best commercial method of making them. Instead of starting with dangerous and expensive fluorine gas, its process, invented during World War II by Professor J. H. Simons of Florida University, uses an electrolytic cell charged with hydrogen fluoride, which is much easier to handle. The organic compound that is to be transformed is mixed with the hydrogen fluoride. When an electric current is passed through the solution, fluorine atoms obediently change places with hydrogen atoms in the organic compound, turning it into the corresponding fluorochemical...
After the war, when Brazil's Communist party had not yet been outlawed, a handful of able Communist schemers moved in on Rio's Club Militar, an old social and fraternal organization open to all Brazilian officers. Organizing Cell No. 2 of their Democratic Front of National Liberation inside the club, they gained influence by lobbying in Congress for more pay and privileges for officers. In the club's 1950 elections, they helped elect as club president General Newton Estillac Leal, the candidate of Getulio Vargas, then launching his political comeback; at the same time, they worked...
...just throw up his job and become a hermit, but he can "escape from [the] time cage" by cutting down on the nonessentials that prevent concentration. "No house in the future will be generously planned," says he, "that does not have its closet or its cell, to supplement the only equivalent for it today, the bathroom...
...charges developed from testimony delivered during July by Herbert A. Philbrick, an F.B.I. agent who operated incognito for nine years within the Communist party. Philbrick contended that Struik and Harry E. Winner of Malden, Mass, who also has been indicted, belonged to the same secret cell he belonged...