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...clinching evidence came last February when the painting was sent to Manhattan Art Restorer William Suhr for cleaning. He discovered that the panel had been heavily overpainted, the hat changed in shape, a cherry-red rosary made into a blue cord...
...Blowproof Tire. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is test-marketing a nylon cord tire within a tire that it says can be driven about 250 miles after a puncture or blowout bad enough to slash the casing. The tire has two casings-inner and outer-each with an independent air supply. If the outer casing is punctured, the built-in-spare inner casing keeps the tire inflated. Goodyear hopes its Captive-Air tire will replace the tubeless tire, which turns punctures into slow leaks and allows a safe but quick stop. Price: 40%-60% more than standard tubeless tires...
...disguise, he tramped into the tiny Northwestern State Bank twice to case it, nervously returned a third time with the shotgun. He ordered Assistant Cashier Paul Ormbreck to stuff money into a paper sack, dashed out with $1,158, after trussing up Ormbreck and a teller with sash cord and gagging them with dirty rags. Richter returned to the farm, paid up $400 worth of bills, tucked away the remaining loot between the walls of a grain bin. Two days later he went to a neighbor's farm to help shear sheep, returned to find police waiting. Said...
...penholder" grip (which makes for an awkward backhand), but attacked so steadily that their opponents could seldom smash to their weak side. "Yoshi! Yoshi!" (Good! Good!) the partisan crowd cried each time a Japanese scored. Japanese women players stopped and bowed low every time they scored on a net cord shot or bounced a winning shot off the edge of the table. While minding their manners, they suffered one of the few Japanese losses: the ladies' cup went to Rumania's defending champs...
...Himself a paratrooper and winner of a battlefield commission (and now a TIME correspondent in Britain), Novelist Brown paints combat in its primary colors of blood, mud and terror. He also etches telling vignettes of the lunatic grotesqueries of war, e.g., a paratroop major with 20 ft. of primer cord wrapped around him and 40 lbs. of explosives on him is hit in the chest by a tracer bullet as he stands ready to jump, and reels back into the plane with the primer cord smoldering, but a quick-witted sergeant kicks him out, and he explodes...