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...wound up (via harbor tug) back in Jersey City. The Colombia got its bow bashed in, and fire broke out in its paint locker. Nobody was seriously hurt, but an investigation was started to find out how such a daylight collision could have come about. One theory: faulty steering apparatus on the freighter Columbia...
...Australia and Africa there are spiders that catch their victims by a sort of combination lasso and harpoon. They attach a drop of sticky gum to a length of silky thread, and whirl this apparatus around their heads. When something edible approaches, the spider slings the globule. If it hits, it sticks, and the spider reels in the victim-playing it, if necessary, as a human angler does a fish...
Most of what Budenz had to say about his experience as managing editor of the Daily Worker and accomplice of the secret Soviet apparatus in the U.S., he told in his first book, This Is My Story. But if not so sensational or dramatic, his new book is a useful guide to domestic Stalinism. Here are intimate details on how the party worms its way into trade unions, dragoons "innocent" intellectuals into front groups, keeps rank & filers dizzy with endless meetings, and chains its functionaries to rigid adherence to the Moscow line. Among Budenz' recollections: how Daily Worker staffers...
When Britain's Scientist Klaus Fuchs, an inoffensive-looking man of twisted brilliance, confessed that he had betrayed U.S. atomic secrets to Russia, the FBI was left with a baffling piece of unfinished business-how to track down members of the shadowy transmission apparatus which had kept in touch with Fuchs during his tour of U.S. atomic centers and passed his stolen information back to the U.S.S.R...
...yearly production of 150,000 cases, he would need to allow 720 sq. ft. for the bottling room, 364 sq. ft. for the conference room, 152 sq. ft. for toilets, stairs, etc. The company also advised him and his staff what machines to buy (including water purification apparatus on which Coca-Cola insists) and how to run them. Typical was the matter of Bums, Crocks and Scuffles...