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...Italy of Fermi's youth was Mus solini's Italy. At first Fascism was merely silly, but as it grew, Fermi began to con sider leaving Italy forever. He made up his mind when Hitler's anti-Semitism flooded over the Alps. The Nobel Prize made escape easy. In 1938 Fermi took his Jewish wife and his two children to Stockholm to receive the prize. After the ceremony, they continued...
...buttoned up, prepared for the worst. Commuters hurried home to secure the family car and bring in the garbage pails. Radio and TV turned their full attention to the big wind. ("Hurricane Edna," announced one television commercial perfunctorily, "is being presented to you as a public service by Con Edison...
None of the indictments to date concerned the well-publicized windfall profits siphoned off from FHA-backed apartment mortgages. Most of them related to the Title I home-improvement program, which offered wide opportunities to veteran con men. The sharpers obtained loan money by inflating estimates of construction costs, supplying fictitious credit ratings, forging signatures on notes, faking project-completion certificates, etc. Some of the loans were diverted to making auto and alimony payments, and even to paying gambling debts...
Stick-Up. Brightly decorated vinyl-plastic "fabric" which sticks to a variety of surfaces (e.g., kitchen walls and book covers) was brought out by Manhattan's Cohn-Hall-Marx Co. "Con-Tact," which can be wiped clean with soap, comes with a backing that is peeled off, leaving an adhesive surface. Price...
...shores. The Federal Government claims everything beyond the state limits (three miles for Louisiana, ioj for Texas), and Mexico, presumably will claim the oil-rich undersea lands on its side of the Gulf. But there is no authority for such an interpretation of international law, which has always con sidered that the high seas belong to all nations in common. As far as precedent goes, there is nothing to prevent the Brit ish, for instance, from building an oil navy on the Clyde and sailing it down to drill for oil just outside Louisiana's three-mile limit...