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...electron microscope is man's sharpest artificial eye, but it can examine only dead, dry objects. The electron stream that it uses instead of light requires a high vacuum, so no water or water vapor can remain in the instrument. The usual method of preparing microorganisms or viruses for electron microscopy is to dry them at ordinary temperatures before putting them in the instrument...
...Corpse. Along with sales, prices also had begun edging up once more. Dun & Bradstreet's index of wholesale food prices showed the sharpest increase (1.6%) in 17 months. The Government's cost-of-living index was still 11% above its June 1950 level, when the Korean war began. In the face of these signs that inflation was far from dead, neither Republicans nor Democrats in Congress seemed willing to take a chance, in an election year, on killing controls.* This week the Defense Production Act, with its train of OPS, NPA and other business controls, seemed certain...
...depicts life in Communist countries, shows people dying in prison, idle factories, cannon ready to fire, churches demolished, and people in slave camps. The sharpest touch: a mask of Rivera peering from behind a dollar-sign totem pole...
...rooms soberly clad in black shoes and a neat dark blue suit. Then he took his place at one of the three head tables to deliver a characteristic speech, dry but sensemaking, warning against Government waste, defending states' rights and condemning corruption. He had to cut out his sharpest debating point because radio and television time was running out, and he didn't get to make it until a press conference two days later. The argument: he is the only Democratic candidate who can beat Eisenhower because he can carry the South. Said Russell: "With 148 electoral votes...
...masthead. Though he had often upbraided the editors as heatedly as Franklin Roosevelt, he smoothly refused the chance to deliver a scolding in person. He had no specific complaints today, said Harry Truman with a disarming grin. Then one of the editors asked the day's sharpest question: "Mr. President, if it is proper to seize the steel mills, can you in your opinion seize the newspapers and radio stations?" Replied the President: Under similar circumstances, the President has to act for whatever is for the best interests of the country. That is your answer...