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...Police of Carteret, N.J., notified that four steel-enclosed radium pellets worth $200,000 had vanished from a flatcar at a local boiler works, wasted no time hunting down the criminals. Observing a kids' shack near by, they checked schools and churches, found that three boys had lifted the valuable pellets, thinking they were fishing sinkers. To the cops' relief, the boys had hidden the boodle under a sidewalk almost immediately, thus escaping possible lethal radiation burns...
...trap, but there are plenty of people (notably Aneurin Sevan's followers) who are willing to listen. It is the same in the rest of Western Europe, where growing islands of unemployment have appeared in recent months. Owners of processing plants in Antwerp, fisheries in Trondheim, boiler works in Lille, olive groves in Tuscany, all cocked an ear to Moscow. In West Germany's Bundestag, the Foreign Affairs Committee demanded an end of curbs on trade with the East "as far as security permits...
Eggs: "How to boil an egg-that is one of the life-shaking problems which designers, draftsmen and consultants of the O.K.B. are engaged ... After years of cogitation there appears ... an egg boiler for eight eggs . . . marked approved, but not acceptable for use." Cost of developing the eight-egg boiler: 35,000 rubles...
...concertmaster's corner. "The way I understand it," steamed Petrillo, "things weren't going so good, so [Halasz] throws the baton in this kid's face ... If Halasz is looking for trouble he's going to get it-especially in Chicago." Petrillo stoked his boiler until just before curtain time for the next performance, and then, with the audience in their seats for Carmen, ordered the musicians out of the pit until Halasz apologized...
Rate of Exchange. Near Seoul, Korea, the U.S. Army's 568th Ordnance Co. decided to cancel a $580 contract with the Sam Whan construction firm to repair its boiler, because its own Korean carpenter had already done...