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...close-knit and obviously carefully planned military drill in defiance of camp rules. The prisoners formed ranks on top of a high terrace. Guards at the foot of the steep incline all around ordered them to break it up, but their only answer was a shower of stones. A brisk wind made tear gas useless. A warning volley of shots had no effect. Three waves of taunting and jeering prisoners, with arms locked, bore down steadily on the guards. Lieut. Colonel George Miller, island commander, ordered his guards to lower the muzzles of their guns and fire. In the brief...
...merchants, it looked as if 1952's Christmas business would be the merriest in history. Many were already reporting a 5% to 10% sales increase over last year. Sales were so brisk and extra help so scarce that merchants all over the U.S. were using tempting lures (bonuses and shopping discounts) to recruit housewives and high school girls. There were reasons for the optimism. For the first ten months of this year personal income hit a new record rate of $266 billion, 5½% ahead of last year. Manufacturers had $75.4 billion in unfilled orders, $10 billion more than...
...poised and handsome 47, with a flair for wearing clothes and a brisk, aloof air of success, Oveta Hobby first took to politics at the age of ten when she began reading the Congressional Record aloud to her father, a lawyer and state legislator. At 20, she was parliamentarian for the Texas legislature, later went to work as a clerk on the Houston Post. She married its publisher, ex-Governor William Pettus Hobby (she was 26, he was 52) in 1931, soon became a power on the newspaper (this fall she formally became its editor & publisher). She has two children...
...into the vast ocean of space; they can buy space suits, space guns and rockets in almost any toyshop. In 50-odd science fiction magazines, space travel is a favorite theme. Eight comic strips and at least two TV programs are flying through space. "Scientific" space books are brisk sellers. But not all members of the space cult are storytellers, crackpots or kids. Some serious scientists believe that space flight will surely come, and perhaps soon, but they know that separating facts and fancy about space travel is almost as difficult as a trip to the moon...
...Englishman John Piper is in an enviable spot. His paintings are pleasant enough to appeal to middlebrows but abstract enough to satisfy the critics and all but the most austere highbrows (who think his work "too pretty"). The result: his paintings are in brisk demand, and his reputation continues to grow. Last week 31 new Piper oils and watercolors were on view in London, and the public flocked...