Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joseph Loverde was working at his buffer in the Haber Corp.'s four-story metal-products factory in Chicago last week when a belt slipped off the machine. Sparks flew, and with a whoosh ignited the fine aluminum dust that hung in the air. "It was like looking into a big gun and having it go off in your face," a bandage-swathed survivor recalled afterward...
...must examine the mysterious proposition that there is some magic dust that makes people go into battle at the bidding of the Soviet Union," he said...
...situation is the same for humans as present evidence indicates a soldier irradiated from the blast of an atom bomb or artillery shall, or contaminated by the radioactive dust scattered by the blast, would panic or "freeze" in a fearful battle-ground situation...
...other side of the bird, moving it closer to Baird, but was obscured from Baird by the foliage. Finally Baird said he was going to shoot. A faithful birder to the end, Daniels covered his face with gloved hands, bravely replied: "Go ahead." Daniels was peppered with fine dust shot, but the towhee got away. The next day Baird went out with a 12-gauge shotgun, brought down the bird and sent it to the U.S. Fish and Wild Life Service. Daniels, happily, was out of range at the time...
...Brooch, a typically grim little short story by Novelist William Faulkner (Sanctuary, Intruder in the Dust), tells of a young man who married the town tramp to escape his possessive mother. It ends with the young man committing suicide. Last week The Brooch appeared on Lux Video Theater (Thurs. 9 p.m., CBS) in a TV adaptation written by Author Faulkner. Some changes had been made: the young man no longer kills himself, and his wife is no longer a tramp. The story emerged as a perfectly adequate but hardly startling half-hour's TV entertainment, starring Dan Duryea, Sally...