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...from B.A. State's reorganization was under way (TIME, Aug. 27). Last week Jimmy Byrnes accepted the resignation of Assistant Secretary Nelson Rockefeller-the day after Rockefeller, in a Boston speech, had soundly spanked the Argentine Government (see LATIN AMERICA). But he had long been a target for his part in bringing Argentina to the San Francisco Conference...
...Army's Chief of Staff (1930-35), he had been an administrator, dealing daily with civilian government officials. As the Philippine Commonwealth's Field Marshal, he had closely studied his prospective enemy, and had become the target of America-hating Japs who called him "that leading Japano-phobe." Perhaps most important, he had come to understand alien peoples (in the case of the Filipinos, to love them...
Hiroshima, first target of atomic bombing, was once Japan's moral cesspool, famed for its teeming whore houses and blackmailing newspapers. Now it is 60% destroyed. Said a U.S. official who knew Hiroshima before the war: "If ever a place needed to be wiped off the face of the map, that place was Hiroshima...
...problem in radar is to generate enough power to get a detectable echo from a distant point. Of the total energy sent out in a radar beam scanning the skies, only a tiny fraction hits the target (e.g., a plane), and a much tinier echo gets back to the receiver. Engineers estimate that if the outgoing energy were represented by the sands of a beach, the returning echo would be just one grain of sand...
Many of radar's wartime jobs, based on locating a noncooperating target, in peacetime could be performed just as well by ordinary radio. Nonetheless, engineers predict a great postwar future for it. For one thing, they expect it to be required equipment on ships and possibly on commercial planes...