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...correct principle involved is not, as Mr. Nixon has suggested, the defense of every inch of "freedom," but, as action in 1955 demonstrated, one of drawing a line which can reasonably be maintained and defended, as Quemoy and Matsu...
Poor Mr. Kennedy, however, has been unable to formulate any effective reply to the argument that we should not cede one inch of free territory. The mere fact that the two groups of islands are not included within the mandatory treaty area is not a reason for surrendering them. Furthermore, Kennedy has exhibited a strange reluctance to cite the perfectly analogous case of the Administration's withdrawal from the Tachen islands when they were under bombardment in the beginning...
...Single-frequency maser light may be used to measure long distances with the millionth-of-an-inch accuracy now possible only in laboratories...
...known that one kind of fish can detect a current of two one-hundred-billionths of an ampere per square centimeter of its body. Its electronic sensing permits it to discriminate between glass rods in its tank that differ in diameter by less than one-tenth of an inch. Study of these talented fish could pay off richly in electronic ideas...
...seemed to the art collector from New York that he had tramped over every inch of the craggy Maine peninsula called Prout's Neck, but he could not find a trace of the famous resident he was looking for. Finally he spotted an old fisherman in rubber boots and battered hat. "I say. my man," he called, "if you tell me where I can find Winslow Homer. I have a quarter for you." "Where's your quarter?" snapped the old fisherman, and the stranger quickly handed one over. The fisherman took it, carefully dropped it into his pocket...