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...truth of Crane's accusations will always be a matter of dispute. Certainly, Smith was no admirer of John Curry or a friend of Crane, but it is unlikely that he single-handedly--as Crane seemed to imply--sowed the disscent that brought Curry down. Cran'e speech was more significant for its tone than its substance: this fight was a personal one, and its intent was not merely to keep John J. Curry as city manager, but to reaffirm the administration of the Crane-Curry era. Crane, in short, has become combattant because he reads both conspiracy and challenge...
...diet staple and profitable source of income, the cranberry gradually conquered the holiday tables of the nation. This month, when Americans buy more cranberries than at any other time of the year, no Thanksgiving dinner will be considered complete without them. The most important fact about the $54 million cran berry industry, however, is that its health no longer depends on just the traditional holiday trade; cranberry products have grown into year-round sellers that compete with other foods for everyday...
...team of workers at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, using an 85 foot antenna similar to that in Fort Davis, had written a paper announcing that the radio waves from the Cran were sharply distored as they passed through the outer extensions of the sun's atmosphere. The Harvard group repeated the observations and found no distortion...
...seems that Frank wrote a story about Basilio, a 250-lb. ex-wrestler reputed to have the worst temper in all Brazil. Basilio didn't like the story, Frank heard later. From the security of TIME'S Bonn bureau, Frank cabled me recently: "My advice to Cran Jones: if a large, cauliflowered party shows up in my bureau, don't tell him your name isn't White. Neither he nor probably anybody else in Brazil would believe...
Other lavish methods of skyward travel are still available to the person who is in a hurry to get to the top so that he may get back to the bottom. The Skimobile at North Conway for example sends little cars nearly a mile to the summit of Cran-more Mountain at the rate of 1,000 passengers per hour. At Cannon Mountain the enthusiast goes up 2,000 feet in a cable car, if that's your idea...