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...Zeckendorf does not live in burgeoning Nassau County. Besides an eight-room Manhattan apartment, he has a 7O-acre waterfront estate in Greenwich, Conn., where he has moved more than a million cubic yards of earth to change the shoreline, installed a null swimming pool, and dredged out a ^2-acre fresh-water lake for bass. Last week he bought a twelve-room, $27,000 Greenwich house, Y$ mile from his estate, just to house his servants...
...Johns Hopkins Hospital study revealed that soap is not the pure, clean substance people think it is. Tests of the hospital's own soap showed it contained 3,500,000 germ organisms per cubic centimeter. Contaminating bacteria from staff members' clothing found their way into solutions used for rinsing surgical gloves and instruments. Henceforth, the hospital will sterilize soap containers by steam under pressure and add chemical germicides to rinsing solutions...
Already favored by the President's 27 1/2 percent tax abatement to compensate for depletion and dry holes, these oil companies, unless regulated, can "gouge" the consumer with exhorbitant prices. An increase of as little as two to five cents per million cubic feet could cost the consumer as much as $18 billion in the next twenty years. If the consumer tires of Esso gasoline or Chesterfield cigarettes, he can change his purchases, but the 60,000,000 users of gas for refrigerators, ranges, and heating plants must pay whatever price the local gas company charges. In addition, industrial production...
...century. "Our temperature is lower than at the North Pole," one Moscow taxi driver told his fare proudly and accurately (Moscow thermometers registered -36.4° F., as opposed to the recordings of -7.6° at the pole). On Helgoland, in the North Sea, chilled islanders gathered together 8,000 cubic meters of firewood to build a gigantic bonfire...
...Near the headwaters of California's two most important river systems, the Sacramento and the San Joaquin, great dams such as Shasta, Folsom, Friant and Pine Flat curbed angry water that might have caused infinitely more damage and death. At flood's height, more than 200,000 cubic feet of water a second poured into the reservoir back of the Sacramento's Shasta Dam, which shrank the downstream rush to only 16,000 cubic feet a second, saving the rich Sacramento Valley...