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...find a niche in a medium which he sneeringly calls "a triumph of equipment over people," a form of entertainment that has doomed the next generation to "eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all." Allen had agreed to put his sagging face, rasping voice and acid wit to work as master of ceremonies of NBC's Judge for Yourself (Tues. 10 p.m.). "I figure this show will take one day of thinking and one day of doing," he said. "It's not mine. I just work there...
...Acid Bulbs. Last month the British-owned tramways provided just such a provocation. To give its workers a bonus and cost-of-living allowance, the company increased the fare by one pice (one-third of a cent). Bengalis objected, and the Communists made haste to exploit the issue...
...swarmed into the trams, burned the seat cushions of the first-class section, and hurled second-class passengers into the streets. But the drivers kept on going. So the Communists pelted them and their passengers with bricks, bottles and Indian Communism's favorite weapon-bulbs filled with nitric acid...
Fighting spread. The mobs rampaged through the bazaars, stopped trains in the outskirts, cut signal wires and threw acid at firemen who tried to stop the fires. Their tactics showed how long the Communists had prepared. When police jeeps came after them at night, someone would blow a whistle and the street lights would go out. Then, at the moment of blindness, they would rush from the alleys, sear the cops with acid and drive them from the street...
Chemical Hoe. A new chemical spray called Alanap (N -I naphthyl phthalamic acid) that kills weeds and crabgrass before they emerge from the soil, but spares farm crops and grass, was announced by U.S. Rubber Co. One to three pounds an acre is sufficient to control weeds among row crops for three to eight weeks. Price: about...