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...also a second welcoming committee made up of steelworkers carrying Democratic placards condemning Unionman McCarthy for his Republican stand. Ikeman McCarthy followed through, stumped for Ike for five weeks. After the election he settled down once again to his job as an electric-furnace-control man in the Dart Union Co. pipefitting factory, cherished a personal note of thanks from the President of the U.S., laughed off continued razzing from fellow union members...
...matter how glamorous Charles Boyer made it seem, the Casbah in Algiers is a squalid slum overpopulated by 80,000 natives, where pimps and petty thieves dart about labyrinthian alleyways, secret passages and connecting rooftops. It is also a prime hideout for terrorists of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). From its recesses they fan out to plant bombs, stab and shoot, wreaking vengeance on Frenchman and moderate Arab alike. So far this year their bombs have killed 47 civilians, wounded 263 others; as a result, anyone now entering a bus. store or cinema in Algiers is automatically searched...
...Julius Penrose, is the man who mistrusts everyone. His is the scalded mind of the archskeptic who has supped so full of human follies that the race of man almost makes him retch. Crippled by polio, he has become a corrosive, nonstop monologuist with a tongue like a poisoned dart. Some of his more sardonic thrusts are directed at the Roman Catholic faith, which his wife Marjorie, a guilt-ridden sensualist of masochistic tendencies, is about to embrace. The bitterness of his remarks, including his view of his wife's imminent conversion as a "peace-at-any-price panic...
When he entered his first-floor office one night, a University of Mississippi staffman was just in time to see a figure clamber out of the window and dart away into the night. The prowler had stolen nothing, but he had ransacked the desk. What was the man after? The staffman's conclusion: any personal notes or letters containing sentiments in favor of racial integration...
TURBOPROP PLANES for businessmen will be built by Grumman Aircraft, which is resuming commercial plane output for first time since 1950. New twelve-passenger plane, powered by two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops, will have top speed of 370 m.p.h. and range of 2,200 miles. Production starts next...