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Denmark's three main exports are butter, bacon and engineers. Last week General Services Administrator Edmund F. Mansure picked one of tiny Denmark's exports to run the world's largest real-estate office: the U.S. Government's Public Building Service...
...British pavilion was dominated by another specialist in horror and violence: Francis Bacon (TIME, Oct. 19). Bacon's screaming, purple-robed cardinals and half-shaped machine gunners are crudely painted and unfeelingly colored, yet convincing, as blurred snapshots can be. Bacon was balanced by Ben Nicholson's abstractions, as dry and cold as a well-made Martini...
During her 15-year-long parliamentary career, peppery Laborite Edith Summer-skill, doughty feminist and onetime Minister of National Insurance, has outraged many a British male by views that ranged from ringing denunciations of bacon & eggs for breakfast to a demand for a law requiring all men to tell their wives how much money they earn. Four years ago, when every British man worthy of his gender stood breathlessly awaiting the first round of a long-heralded bout of fisticuffs between two gentlemen named Lee Savold and Bruce Woodcock, Dr. Edith threw a haymaker at the manly...
...could prevent students from hoarding scarce books. Furthermore, a fund was necessary to replace those copies which have somehow disappeared during the year. A revised schedule of fines, to be tried this spring, will do much to improve the old system without impairing its ability to bring home the Bacon or the Carlyle...
...single cell produces less than one volt, but since its active parts need be only one-half inch thick, many cells can be stacked up in series to give higher voltage. The efficiency can be as high as 77%. Bacon believes that his fuel cell can also be used as a kind of storage battery; it can burn hydrogen and oxygen made by decomposing water with surplus electricity when demand is low. Later on, he hopes, it can burn air and impure hydrogen made with coal...