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...other, a public information short, narrates the work of railroad detectives, or "cinder dicks" in the railroad vernacular. These "cinder dicks" guard cars filled with $75,000 worth of cigarettes, keep hoboes out of cars, and apprehend pickpockets in terminals...
...crusades, e.g., their defense of Dean Acheson and attacks on Louis Johnson while Defense Secretary. Yaleman Stewart is scholarly, quiet; Harvardman Joe, aggressive, facile, gregarious, steers the team. The brothers soak up information incessantly at interviews (upwards of 40 a week), at Joe's lavish parties in his cinder-block-and-glass house in Georgetown, or by legwork around the globe. (Each spends at least part of the year abroad...
...other immigrants, Irish-born Greer Garson (now Mrs. Elijah E. Fogelson) took her final oath of U.S. citizenship with tears streaming down her face. "I am so happy about being an American now," she said, and explained the tears. Just before the ceremony, she had stopped to wash a cinder from her right eye. Reaching for some eye lotion, she grabbed the wrong bottle, gave her eye a burning bath of perfume...
...ingenious arrangement of nets in the Cage-around the inside of the circling cinder track and down the middle with a protective T at the west end-permits three channels of activity. Pitching hopefuls loosen their arms in the shelter of the west side cross-netting, leaving the two major divisions of the building open for simultaneous batting practices...
...Delhi, India's National Sports Club had built a modern, 35,000-spectator stadium with eight entrance tunnels, a pink-tinted cycle track, a cinder track, an arena for field events, a main grass arena for football, hockey and basketball, a swimming pool with a spectator capacity of 5,000. There last week, teams from eleven Asian countries competed in the first Asiad, a program of events patterned after the world Olympics. The countries: Afghanistan, Burma, Ceylon, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Siam.* Stated purpose of the Asiad: "Maintaining world peace." Another purpose: promoting the Asians...