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...same stories had been aired on the Senate floor five years earlier. Olds, a plain-featured man with jutting ears and a smooth manner of speech, testified that he had written as he did "because I believed radical writing was needed in the 'golden '20s' to shock the American people. . . out of the social and political lethargy . . ." He emphatically denied that he had ever been a Communist; Communism was a "negation of democracy...
...Michigan defense until it began to look as if Army was going to play a one-game schedule in 1949. From studying movies, Blaik learned that 230-lb. Alvin Wistert, Michigan's All-America tackle, stood solid as a steel lamppost against high blocks but fell "like a shock of wheat" before low ones. On another field, Blaik's defense unit drilled against Michigan pass plays until even the bystanders got tired of watching...
...Infantile Paralysis put up research funds. Then, in the School's machine shop, Sarnoff,* with the help of Dr. Leslie Silverman, began assembling transformers and rheostats. Soon they had a machine which could deliver regular pulses of an electric current. It was too small to produce a shock. But, applied to the phrenic nerves of monkeys, cats and dogs, the current made the breathing muscles work rhythmically...
...proper Bostonians withstood the shock well. So did Lever's astounded office workers. Much less pleased were the seven Manhattan advertising agencies who will soon have one of their most important clients camping right on their doorstep. Said Chuck Luckman with his best Pepsodent smile: "We're going to drive them like hell...
Inevitable Day. Despite the first quick sense of shock, the news made no essential change at all in U.S. relations with Russia. Like U.S. scientists, U.S. planners had well known that the day must inevitably come-and soon-when Russia would have the bomb. "Ever since atomic energy was first released by man," wrote the President, "the eventual development of this new force by other nations was to be expected. This probability has always been taken into account...