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...years earlier, in 1915, Sarnoff had proposed a "radio music box," predicted it would bring music, lectures and reports of national events into the American living room. In the confusion of World War I, Sarnoff's memo had been pigeonholed. Now he dug it out, showed it to Owen Young. Sarnoff's boss was enthusiastic, but the RCA board would agree to put up only $2,000-which Sarnoff spent to transmit a broadcast of the Dempsey-Carpentier heavyweight championship fight.- Heard by 200,000 wireless enthusiasts, the broadcast caused a sensation, and RCA began developing sets immediately...
...letting out a rebel yell inside the Taj Mahal, and proclaiming that Viet Nam's Ngo Dinh Diem was "the Winston Churchill of Asia." On that same trip, Johnson grasped the importance of U.S. support for Southeast Asia. While others in Washington were dallying, Johnson wrote a prophetic memo to President Kennedy, declaring that the U.S. either had to "make a major effort" in the region or "throw in the towel." Then Johnson added: "Throwing in the towel is not my concept." Geyelin does not establish just what impact the memo carried, but soon afterward Kennedy began the process...
Though he has now moved from the White House to a Wesleyan University fellowship, Goodwin still hankers to shape national policy. His reflections on Viet Nam, expanded from a recent New Yorker magazine article, are a kind of memo to L.B.J. A flashy but not always illuminating exercise, it ends up sounding improbably like a cool hawk trying to placate hot doves...
Running Children. Some surgeons question whether instant prosthesis is advisable for elderly, debilitated victims of diabetic or other blood-vessel disease. At Miami's James M. Jackson Memo rial Hospital, on the other hand, Dr. Augusto Sarmiento has used the technique on more than 50 such patients aged 60 and over. Only three patients have needed a second (higher) amputation because of infection or poor circulation. Unlike some other surgeons, Dr. Sarmiento does not believe in leaving a drain tube in the wound, or in putting any padding between the stump and the socket. He wants the snuggest possible...
Professor John Seeley, chairman of the Brandeis Sociology Department, touched off the controversy in February with a memo questioning ethics of grading "In a situation where professors hold life-and-death probability powers over their students. We are now an intimate part of the selection system. We are perhaps as proximate as whoever in Nazi Germany 'objectively' determined the fraction of a man's ancestry that was Jewish...