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Triumphant Discussion. At Neosho, Mo., he couldn't resist giving the home folks a triumphant discussion of his travels. "I started out at Des Moines, at a plowing contest," said ex-Plowboy Harry Truman, "and there were just about ten acres of people in front of the stand where I spoke ... I went to Denver and there were 100,000 people . . . went on down the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and over to Salt Lake City...
...general he feels that "the great achievement of ERP has been reviving the will to resist totalitarianism, internally and externally. The fantasy of neutrality is non-existent, except in Sweden." He calls the record to date of the Office of European Economic Cooperation, the 16-nation joint agency, "perhaps the most incredible accomplishment in international economic cooperation ever-the dimensions of which, as a prelude to European unity, aren't appreciated here...
...contrary, we must have the boldness required to regard possible disaster with as much calmness as possible good fortune. . . we must resist the temptation to believe that because modern man can survey the present with miraculous case (thanks to modern methods of communication) he can therefore foresee the future more clearly than in other times...
...bathyscaphe, long abuilding (TIME, July 8, 1946; Aug. 18, 1947) is a steel sphere 6½ feet in outside diameter with thick walls to resist the enormous underwater pressure. It will not be suspended from a cable, like William Beebe's bathysphere (which set a 3,000-ft. depth record in 1934). The Piccard sphere will float like a balloon in the ocean depths, supported by tanks filled with buoyant gasoline. A heavy iron keel attached by electromagnets will cause the sphere to sink. To rise, Piccard will cut the electric current and release the keel. The bathyscaphe...
Berlioz: Fantastic Symphony (Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum conducting; English Decca, 12 sides). Berlioz' blend of bombast and beauty is hard to resist in the performance of this great Amsterdam orchestra. Recording: excellent...