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Daniel Lang on the 1973 bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden, during which four hostages began to sympathize with their captors.
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the case of Susan Cook Russo, a young art teacher, who was fired in June 1970 from Sperry High School in Henrietta, N.Y. (a …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the desertion from the Navy by a young man, Harry Taggart (a pseudonym), for over 2 1/2 years, in this country & in Canada. The …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a Vietnam war veteran, Frank Reed (pseudonym). Tells how this 26-year-old former Marine Corps sergeant changed his feelings …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about whether or not the US gov't. intends to use nuclear weapons in Indo-China. Writer talked with many people--officials in the …
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Daniel Lang reports on the rape and murder of a Vietnamese girl by four American soldiers.
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the trial of Dr. Benjamin Spock & four other defendants charged with conspiracy to counsel, aid and abet draftable men to avoid …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the U.S. nuclear armament program. Writer interviewed a number of Washington officials & scientists asking how far the arms race …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the so-called Pugwash Conference held this year at Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. Chat with Prof. Arne Engstrom, a Swede who is a cell …
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PROFILE OF Jerome B. Wiesner, President Kennedy's Special Assistant for Science and Technology. Wiesner hopes that every Secretary will appoint an …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about observing the underground explosion in the desert southeast of Carlsbad, N. M..-Project Gnome which marked the opening of the …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the effect of radio-activity on human beings, & about the Atomic Energy Commission's search for the surviving dial painters, …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about studies being made of "human factors" in space travel. Interesting though the terrestrial by-products of space research may be, the…
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PROFILE of Irving Seiden, vice-president and general manager of Mercury Service Systems, the largest messenger service in New York City. There are 98 …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. Project Sherwood, aimed at controlling the stupendous energy released by …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Cocoa Beach, the nearest community to Cape Caneveral missiles base, Two miles below the village is Patrick Air Force base. …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a radiation accident which injured the eyesight of physicist, Dr. Lloyd Smith. It took place when he was working on a cyclotron at …
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PROFILE of Emory Cook, sound engineer, founder & president of Sounds or Our Times, or Cook Laboratories, Inc., a small hi-fi-recording firm in Stamford, …
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PROFILE of Emory Cook, sound engineer, founder & president of Sounds of Our Times, or Cook Laboratories, Inc., a small hi-fi recording firm in Stamford, …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about fallout, radioactive debris, and about the atomic bomb test of Mr. 1, 1954, on a coral island in a lagoon at Bikini, when a …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about jet-fighter station (58th Squadron) at Otis Air Force Bass, Cape Cod, set up by the Eastern Air Defense Force to protect N.Y. & …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the descendants of Ann Greenslade Pudeator trying to clear her of the charge of being a witch for which she was tried & executed …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Dr. William G. Pollard, the executive director of the Oak Ridge Inst. of Nuclear Studies, in Oak Ridge, Tenn., who after 20 years …
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PROFILE of Dr. Samuel A. Goudsmit, a nuclear physicist, and chairman of the Physics Dept. at the Brookhaven Natl. Lab., Dr. G. came to this country from …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about prospecting for uranium in the Colorado Plateau. A large part of our uranium comes from the Shinkolobwe Mine in the Belgian Congo; …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Project Saucer, the Air Forces' investigation of reports of flying saucers. In Feb. 1951, Dr. Urner Liddel, a nuclear physicist…
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a woman referred to as Jean Baker, who was trapped in a self-service elevator in her six-story house in Madison Ave., from Saturday…
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Dr. Aleksander W. Rudzinski, the Polish delegate to the U.N. who, on orders from the Kremlin walked out. An hour later he resigned …
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PROFILE of Dr. Martin Gumpert, the best-known practitioner of geriatrics - the field of medicine dealing with the ills of old age. Dr. Gumpert, who was …
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PROFILE of Dr. Martin Gumpert, a practitioner of geriatrics, the branch of medicine dealing with old age. He tries to fire the dormant minds of the elderly…
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A REPORTER AT LARGE about William W. Remington a Dept. of Commerce economist who was accused by Elizabeth Bentley of being a Communist and of having given …
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Reporter at Large about the launching of a V-2 rocket, one of the 100 the U.S. Array captured at Nordhausen. For the moment all that is being done with the…
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REPORTER AT LARGE About the White Sands Proving Grounds & experiments with rockets. The U.S. Army captured 100 2-v rockets at Nordhausen & was also able to…
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the Atomic Energy Commission, now a federal bureau under the Chairmanship of David Lilienthal and four Commissioners, tells of the …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the Brookhaven National Laboratory, a research center to concern itself with the peaceful uses of atomic energy. The …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about an interview with Kurt Maier, a Czech Jew arriving in New York under the category of displaced Persons. Maier is a professional …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about what is being done in the way of finding underground sites for shelters, factories & warehouses in case of an atomic war. As yet, …
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Reporter at Large about a visit to the Hyde Park Historic Site and Library, and also a visit to Mrs. Roosevelt's cottage at Val Kill. It is located …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the Federation of American Scientist lobbying-activities in Washington. Shortly before the destruction of Hiroshima, about 150 …
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Reporter At Large: Dr. Morrison, a member of a group of men sent to Hiroshima to determine the effect of the atomic bomb, tells about the mission and its …
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Reporter at Large about UNRA supplies for Greece being loaded aboard the William Pepperell for immediate shipment Among the shipment waiting to be loaded …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about an individual employee of the Manhattan Engineer District at Oak Ridge, Edward Jackson. He inspects incoming equipment for a plant …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Fort Du Pont, Delaware, where some of the 400,000 German prisoners of war in this country are interned.
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the black market and black market operators in New York City. Tells about the case of the Abdullah Linen Company, in the West …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the trial of two Italian spies, a former Army captain, Carlos Barghiglioni, and a 48-year-old school teacher by the name of Olga …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the Engineers Replacement Training Center at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, one of the camps at which our troops, in this case, …
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Reporter at large about the black market in food stuffs in the city. Interview with Max Mencher, sec. of the N.Y. City Dept. of Markets; shopping tour with…
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Reporter at Large about a tour of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company, four days before the launching of the light cruiser Houston. Harold T. …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the Diamond Dealers Club at 36 W. 47th Street. A good share of the world's diamond business was transacted in the four diamond …
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Reporter at Large about an interview with Barney Baxter, survivor of a twenty-four day voyage on a wooden raft in the Pacific. Account of his experiences. …
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Reporter at Large about a visit to an anti-aircraft unit. Among the lonliest troops are the men assigned to our small anti-aircraft units. The U.S.O., in …