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...sunny California, some of the world's sharpest auto salesmen provide a deal of shade. Last week the shadiest of them all was popped into the cooler. Convicted on charges of conspiracy, grand theft and forgery, Auto Dealer Henry J. Caruso-billed as "the greatest" in his radio and TV singing commercials-was packed off to jail for a year, fined $10,000, and enjoined for the next ten years from entering any business in which he would be selling to the public. After Caruso, wary Californians agreed, the public needed a ten-year respite...
...plate with the higher potential is heated to about 1,500° centigrade, the other to around 1,000° centigrade. The first plate is hot enough to release electrons; the second is not. Clouds of electrons boil off the hotter plate (the cathode) and are attracted to the cooler plate (the anode), thereby producing a current of electricity strong enough to light a small bulb. In effect, the device is a simple battery, energized by heat...
Stevenson decided to turn down the trip to Paris principally because he felt that, despite Ike's invitation, the White House attitude was still considerably cooler than State's. Specifically...
...Cooler friendships between the U.S. and three hemisphere neighbors seemed a sure result as the U.S. Tariff Commission began hearings this week in Washington on tariffs for imported lead and zinc. Heavy administration pressure was on the commission to raise the tariffs; President Eisenhower promised last August that he would request it to "expedite its consideration of the matter." Even before the hearings began, anguished complaints came from Canada, Peru and Mexico...
...heroes of this naval epic of World War II are the officers and men of a P.R.O. outfit stationed on a Pacific island called Tulura. Theirs not to reason why. Theirs but to dream of the bounding main as they stare at the waves in the water-cooler, arid to suffer in silence one of the subtler horrors of war: Lieut. Commander Clinton T. Nash (Fred Clark), a sort of sugar-coated Queeg. This pill is secretly known, to those who have to take him. as "Marblehead" ("And not just because he is bald"). In civilian life Marblehead...