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...Reds, Dides had been found in possession of top-secret minutes of the national defense committee. Dides' explanation was that in the government's interest, he got this paper from an informant in the Communist ranks. But the government decided that Dides' job as a port inspector did not qualify him to "collect, retain and diffuse" military information. He was grilled for 24 hours, released, fired from his post...
...stepped off her plane with her prettiest professional smile. But she soon lost her temper when she was instructed to go through the police, health and customs routine, just like any other traveler. As she opened each piece of luggage, Ava got angrier and angrier, while the customs inspector got increasingly conscientious and methodical. At length she fumed: "Let's get the first plane out of this place. They're a bunch of savages and I won't stay here!" With that she flounced into a car and was off to her beflowered presidential suite...
...such case seemed to be Horace Watkins, 52, an Ontario electrical inspector. When he entered Montreal's Jewish General Hospital, he could walk only six steps before pain and exhaustion stopped him. But Dr. Arthur Vineberg had been operating on animals, testing his own refinements of a basic technique suggested by British Surgeon Laurence O'Shaughnessy (who was killed at Dunkirk). Dr. Vineberg opened Watkins' chest, cut into the heart sac and removed part of its innermost layer, the epicardium. This exposed the enlarged left ventricle. From the abdominal cavity he pulled up a flap...
Songo, now 25, developed his creative ability in the eight years that he has been at Cyrene, the church school for 320 Negro boys. A government school inspector brought him from his farming village to grizzled Canon Edward Paterson, an artist-priest who founded Cyrene in 1940. He was a half-starved boy in grey rags, and so helpless that he had to be wheeled to classes in an old baby carriage. But Sam, who showed surprising aptitude for drawing, soon told the canon: "I can carve." Paterson wisely refrained from giving the crippled young Negro any formal art training...
Automatic Detective. An ultrasonic inspector of metal parts that follows instructions recorded on magnetic tape was put into operation by Sperry Products at General Motors Allison Division. Like a doctor with a stethoscope, "Simac" looks for defects in rotor forgings by automatically moving to specified checkpoints and "listening" to the metal. Price...