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Pestalozzi Village is the dream of Walter Robert Cord, 36, an ailing, angular Swiss editor, who has already raised a million Swiss francs ($234,000) or about a fourth of what he needs for the project. Trogen's town meeting voted him the eleven-acre site, overlooking Lake Constance. Swiss students volunteered their labor...
...discerning young Harvard man discovers, soon after moving into his college dwellings, that the angular, unpadded objects grandiosely labeled "room furnishings" offer excellent facilities for clothes-hanging and third degrees, but have few other practical uses. In order to secure a modicum of comfort he must supplement the University supplied furniture by making purchases in Cambridge or Boston. Unfortunately, furniture suitable to college rooms is not easily found and even when available can be acquired only by parting with a painfully large amount of money...
Clementine Paddleford, an angular, friendly and fortyish spinster, is "food markets editor" of the New York Herald Tribune. Last week, sniffing some savory news from afar, she flew out to Fulton, Mo. to see what was cooking, sliced herself a cut of the Churchill-Truman story...
This week these blokes will be asking themselves: did we get anywhere? One of them, an angular little man from one of the little countries, as shy of quotation as he is great in diplomacy, said: "Perhaps. Perhaps we did." He looked down at his pale clasped hands and said: "We might have failed, and we didn't. We know now that it may work...
Sferic's antenna, revolving like a non stop merry-go-round, seeks out these static signals and relays them to the weatherman as straight-line flashes on the face of the cathode-ray tube. The angular positions of the flashes indicate the di rection the storm is taking. A network of stations taking simultaneous observations of the same flashes can locate their source and spot a storm position in a 2,000-mile radius. One drawback: not all storms stir up enough static...