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Security investigations, from this point of view, operate very nearly on the level of discharging a clerk from a dime store. Since all doubts are accounted in favor of the government, Senator McCarthy's evidence need not be either conclusive, adequate, or true. His charges must only cause doubts sufficient to warrant further investigation or the firing of the accused...
...large rear brush flips in into a conveyor belt that carries the mess into a big hopper. The trucks look pretty ungainly and make plenty of noise, but actually they are quite graceful. The secret is in the rear wheel steering that allows them to turn on a dime and makes each turn a kind of slither. Every night, from twelve to seven they slide around Cambridge whisking up tons of dirt that are dumped into piles and collected in the morning. During the day lesser cleaning is continued by a battery of men with brooms and carts called "section...
Then again, there is the "Penny Just SO Saves Nine" technique, but this is entirely restricted to real artists. By casting a penny down a nickel slot so that it hits on an angle roughly corresponding to ten o'clock on the coin, the dime bell will ring. Tricky...
After 73 days of marriage but little bliss, Five & Dime Store Heiress Barbara Hutton and Dominican Playboy-Diplomat Porfirio Rubirosa "mutually decided that it is wisest for us to separate." The honeymoon had been a mishmash of thrills (Rubi finished second in the Sebring twelve-hour sports-car endurance race), spills (Babs broke an ankle in her Manhattan bathroom), and finally chills (Babs left Rubirosa in their Palm Beach mansion last week and moved in with her aunt). For all of Porfirio's junior standing (he has racked up four marriages to Barbara's five), the round...
...FIVE & DIME oil boom is on at Seneca Lake in eastern Ohio since an auto dealer, wildcatting in his spare time, struck oil at 464 ft. So far, local businessmen have put down 30 wells, have 15 more adrilling, and leases on plots are going for as much...