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...dailies, has become a contest of wills between hardheaded Financier Chinn Ho, who dominates both papers, and Jack Hall, the tough boss of militant unionism in the islands. At first the unions wanted an across-the-board pay raise of $10 a week. The publishers offered a sliding scale downward from $3.50. The gap narrowed to the point where there was only $2.75 separating their positions. But negotiations broke down, and the strike was on. Ho, the Oriental bank messenger who became a millionaire in real estate, said that management had not even had time to present its final offer...
Marine biologists have wondered for years why fish and other creatures that live at middling ocean depths carry rows of little searchlights on their bellies. The searchlights (photophores) are cup-shaped organs that are lined with highly reflective tissue and contain luminous cells whose light is concentrated into a downward-pointing beam. Biologists reason that since photophores evolved independently in fish (vertebrates), shrimps (crustaceans), and squids (mollusks), they must have important survival value. But what was it? The bright beams of the photophores shining downward would seem to be a disadvantage, serving only to draw the attention of predators...
...Cape Canaveral Satellite Jet-passengers enter the rocket, fasten seat belts, then blast off with engines roaring as filmed special-effects from actual space shots conjure up a journey to the moon. The Colonel Glenn Sky Ride has 16 plastic bubbles orbiting 80 feet above the boardwalk. For downward exploration the Neptune Diving Bell encloses 30 people, drops them 35 feet down to an "ocean floor" where live porpoises play. Further along is the Double Sky Wheel, a king-sized dumbbell with gyratory center beam supporting two independent wheels that can't decide whether to plunge suicidally earthward...
...circuiting his electric toothbrush, a campaign to clothe naked animals, a scare-headline crime wave based on some scattered muggings and holdups. It is a wonder that Newhall has room even for that sort of news. At last count, the Chronicle was carrying no fewer than 53 columnists, ranging downward from Walter Lippmann to Count Marco, a no-count native of Pittsburgh whose real name is Marco Spinelli. In "Beauty and the Beast," Marco offers advice to females, mostly matrons interested in getting their husbands interested again, and once recommended: "Take a bath with your husband. . . . Step daintily into...
...less than 90 minutes the film poses its universal question: How could a sensible people like the Germans be fooled by a fox? A quotation from Ecclesiastes is offered as the answer: "Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth...