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...week has a right to expect to be told just what is in President Kennedy's civil rights package and what its prospects are: he will want to hear about the Supreme Court decision on prayers in public schools, and he will naturally expect the most comprehensive and compact introduction to the character and attitudes of the new Pope, Paul...
...leader of the Senate, Hubert Humphrey. She teaches girls to be women and inspires our sons to deserve such ladies: President of Radcliffe Dr. Mary I. Bunting. He has kept the flame of Christian hope alive for his people under two tyrannies, Naziism and Communism: Bishop Otto Dibelius. Compact car with a 500-horsepower engine, the Governor of Michigan, George Romney. Beauty is her business, and every woman here and every man knows it: Elizabeth Arden. In painting, I know what I like. I enormously like Edward Hopper. A novelist, wonderful, obsessed with America, John Dos Passos. His faith...
...name from Norwegian Inventor Fredrik Bull, whose patents it acquired to make its first punch-card machine; it is now controlled by the Callies family (paper mills). It turned out a tabulator that was for years the fastest on the market, brought out the first computer to use compact germanium diodes as well as tubes and developed a Gamma 60 computer so electronically marvelous that it can handle scores of totally unrelated problems at once...
Homebound aboard the liner Aquitania in 1926, a group of British industrialists traveling together decided to merge four struggling chemical firms into a new company called Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. In a surprising departure from British formality, they scribbled out the new company's compact on a sheet of Cunard Line writing paper. Over the years since then I.C.I, has become Britain's Du Pont...
...eager research labs are rushing the development of battery-powered vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, vending machines, and even battery-heated clothing. And where nickel-cadmiums are not powerful enough to do the job, there is already a newer silver-cadmium rechargeable battery, which is even more expensive but packs a compact electrical wallop strong enough to drive portable industrial machinery...