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...wife packed; his daughters, Lydia, 21, and Erika, 10, dressed with special care. International Refugee Organization officials wanted the Ranezays to be all ready when the ship docked at 7 a.m. For 47-year-old Ranezay, once a Slovak farm manager, had been picked as the 1,000,000th refugee to be resettled by the I.R.O. since it began its work four years ago. He was I.R.O.'s 280,572nd displaced person accepted...
Salute from Paris (Sat. 11:30 p.m., NBC). French songs through the ages, celebrating the 2,000th anniversary of Paris...
Brother Matthias had his 1,000th "customer" last week. The customers that come to Brother Matthias and his five fellow monks in Albuquerque, N. Mex. are down & outers in need of a meal, a bed and a change of clothes. No. 1,000 was a milestone on their steep road to official recognition as a new order of the Roman Catholic Church, the Brothers of the Good Shepherd...
Consumers had stopped stocking up on goods, because many of the shortages which were forecast so gloomily six months ago have not materialized. Automobile production is running about equal to last year's rate. This week, the 3,000,000th car of the year will roll off U.S. assembly lines, almost matching last year's midyear total. Even with a 48% cut in production scheduled for the last half of 1951, the auto industry will hit the second biggest output in history for the full year. Despite retail price wars, retailers' shelves were still bulging with...
...this altitude and above, the air is so thin that it does not act as a normal gas. Its molecules are in motion, but instead of colliding with one another every 10,000th of an inch, as they do at sea level, they travel many feet between collisions. When a solid body passes through such a rarefied atmosphere, it behaves as if it were moving in space containing a few ping-pong balls in rapid, random motion...