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...wild ride in a Paris taxi can be an electrifying experience. Soon, it may prove to be even more shocking. Cabbies, alarmed by a recent wave of attacks by passengers, are eyeing a device called le siege qui brule, the hot seat. Wires beneath the rear seats are connected to the taxi's battery. The driver can step on a pedal to deliver enough electricity to stun even a crazed gunman...
While the Greeks may be credited with the beginning of formal logic, Albright credited Hebrew civilization with the development of a "pre-formal logic" of an "empirical-logical nature." He noted the rejection by a scholar in the history of logic, Lucien Levy-Brule, of his own theory that such "primitive" civilizations as the Hebrews represented a "pre-logical mentality...
...some Brule River promoter give General Eisenhower a fast shuffle with phony fish scales? If the General himself actually said that scant two-pounder weighed 5½ [TIME, Sept. 15], somebody must have pulled the wool (Cap, Field, Wool, O.D.) over his eyes...
...Eisenhower was acting more & more like a presidential candidate. After two days of fishing in Wisconsin's Brule River, he had his picture taken with the biggest fish he had ever caught-a 5½-lb. trout. At the Minnesota State Fair in St. Paul, he was snapped taking a folksy bite into a prizewinning apple...
Included in an auction sale in Manhattan was a portrait done in 1899 by the late Swedish Anders Zorn of the late Henry Clay Pierce, St. Louis oilman, whose Brule, Wis. estate was Calvin Coolidge's summer home in 1928. Angered because he thought the portrait made him look ungainly, Oilman Pierce demanded numerous alterations, finally refused to accept or pay for the picture. Artist Zorn sued, collected $13,200. On the auction block, the portrait fetched...