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Inside the world's biggest bomber, the camera pokes into the small, pressurized compartments, jammed with equipment, where the crewmen eat hot meals, perform, their demanding jobs, doze off-duty in tiered bunks. To get from one end of the big bomber to the other, the airmen crawl the distance of half a city block, or slide on a dolly through a tunnel in the innards of the plane...
...significant change appeared in the U.S. economy last week. Inflation was slowed down to a crawl, at least temporarily, and price cuts were sprouting like spring crocuses. Most startling example was in the television industry, which was supposed to be the first to be hard hit by arms production. It found to its surprise that even with cutbacks it was producing more sets than it could sell. Avco Manufacturing Corp. had already lopped $40 to $60 off the price of some of its Crosley sets. Last week Admiral Corp. cut prices $30 to $40 on its cheaper models, Halli-crafters...
Weber and Hayek rounded up a nucleus of professionals. For the rest, says Weber, "we took in everyone who could creep and crawl." The non-pros include mailmen, policemen, engineers, salesmen and a chiropodist. One musician, an accountant, rides his motorcycle 30 miles from his Watertown job, wearing an old Air Force flying suit over his tuxedo, to play. Until she retired to have her fourth baby, his wife used to ride with him, clutching her cello. Now, at their five concerts a year in the Soo-seat Waukesha High School auditorium, Waukeshans hear creditable and sometimes even polished performances...
...tried to crawl from under his burden of debts by taking a job as commissary for the Spanish Armada, only to run into more trouble. When he commandeered church property, he was excommunicated. When the government found discrepancies in his accounts, he was thrown into jail. Out of jail at last, he went ahead with his writing. Finally, at 57, he published Part I of the comic, compassionate masterpiece that was to win him little of the fortune, but all of the glory he thirsted...
...able to give. Students have contended that its doctors keep short or, at least, "inconvenient" hours, that they are sometimes not immediately available at emergencies and that Stillman Infirmary, which is a good distance off from the University community, is without an ambulance service for those too ill to crawl to its doors. Others have regretted the state of first-aid equipment the doctors have provided adjacent to athletic facilities...