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President of the U.S. at his news conference, the U.S. could take only one "logical" stand: "We are not going to give one single inch in the preservation of our rights, and of discharging our responsibilities in this particular region, especially Berlin. There can be no negotiation on this particular point...
...that test of nerves, the U.S. had to be willing to run a risk of war. Last week the reality of that risk, already known and accepted by the Administration, hit home generally. There was no sign of flinching, no sign that the U.S. wanted to "give one single inch...
Most of these drowned cities are unexplored and unaccounted for. No one knows how their ruins got so deep underwater; the general level of the Mediterranean has risen only a fraction of an inch since glacial times. Gargallo hopes that his underwater ruins may hold the answer to some Etruscan mysteries. "Water," he says, "is destructive, but it can also preserve. Mud gives protection from time, weather and greedy hands. If the sea bottom is undisturbed, some relics last almost indefinitely...
When the average Hollywood magnate decides to make a picture, he rounds up a million dollars or so, mounts his curved-screen camera, and hires a host of stars. Several years later, the technicolor epic will, he hopes, draw enough people away from their 21 inch screens to pay the tremendous production costs. To put it mildly, motion pictures are big business, from Producer on down to Assistant Continuity...
...thalamus, part of the central nervous system which relays many pain impulses to the higher perception centers. Biggest drawback: the thalamus, tucked away in the middle of the skull, is hard to get at, and early operations on it often missed the target by a fraction of an inch...