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...whole appointment pattern there was further indication that Old Soldier Dwight Eisenhower is spreading the staff idea through Government, has shaped "deputy" into a potent word...
...Gulf of California coast, not enough rain has fallen in the past six years to settle the dust. Yet last week 123,550 acres of the valley's virgin soil lay plowed and planted for the first time in history. Crisscrossing the land was a symmetrical pattern of brand-new concrete canals and irrigation ditches filled with fresh water. Higher up, in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains that parallel the coast, lay the source of the life-giving moisture: the new, stone-faced $16 million Miguel Hidalgo Dam, finished last year...
...Markos Vafiades, a onetime tobacco worker who had seen regular service in the Greek cavalry. U.S. military aid was pouring into Athens, but Soviet arms were also pouring across the Yugoslav and Bulgarian borders to help the guerrillas. The situation had the makings of a minor war on the pattern that was to become familiar in Korea two years later. But after Tito's break with Stalin, something went wrong with the Communist army in Greece. General Markos was reported "seriously ill." In the confusion the small, tough Greek army (with expert military guidance by U.S. General James...
...crescendos, diminuendos. Thus, a rest after a note may mean that phrase should be broken off abruptly, and a heavy dot may mean that a jump should be bouncy. A diminuendo indicates a relaxation of the dance. Laderman's notations, however, give no indication of the actual dance pattern; that is still the business of the choreographer...
...which plant, animal and human life depends. They knew that chlorophyll by itself has no photosynthetic power. Only when it is contained in extremely small structures found in green leaves can it use the energy of light to release hydrogen from water, the first step in photosynthesis. The orderly pattern of the molecules in these bodies, say Drs. Melvin Calvin and Power B. Sogo of the University of California at Berkeley, is the key to the process...