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...Flip-Top Fillip. The big surge in consumer buying also sent profits soaring. Giant General Electric turned in third-quarter earnings of $47,863,000 v. $45,127,000 a year ago, and reported its most prosperous nine months ever (earnings of $160,727,000 on volume of $2,962,780,-ooo). In the third quarter General Foods' net of $10,593,632 was only fractionally higher than the $10,356,780 earned the same period a year ago, but for its six months ending Sept. 30, the company chalked up its highest-ever sales...
Problem: how to drop an atom bomb from treetop level-and live to file a report. The solution of this esoteric flying problem is a scientific version of the "toss-bombing" that was used in the Korean war, when pilots of fighter-bombers released their bombs with an upward flip of the plane so that the bomb was tossed into caves sheltering enemy troops. Both Air Force and Navy have been working to upgrade toss bombing into a way of dishing out atom bombs safely. Last week a little information about the new technique was made public...
Bucking for Sainthood. A salesman for a religious supply house plagues the sisters with his sales talk for Rosary clickers (to show you where you were when you fell asleep), electric vigil lights ("flip it on for ten minutes on bus or car-gives you a lift for that tired feeling"), rosaries in which "each bead contains Waters of Jordan and a blessed guppy...
...world's best professional and amateur golfers gathered at Rochester's Oak Hill Country Club last week for the 56th National Open, there was a hot sun in the sky and nerve-twanging tension in the air. Before the first round was done, scurrying officials had to flip four times through their complex rule books (sample heading: Hole Made by Burrowing Animal) to settle rhubarbs, including one in favor of Henry Cotton, oldtime monarch of British golf, who was accused of not owning up to an extra stroke. "I said I didn't have...
...Olympic prospects: Shotputter Parry O'Brien, the rugged, big (6 ft. 3 in., 235 Ibs.) Californian who smashed his own world record this last week with a flip of 61 ft. 4 in.; Dashman Lou Jones of the Second Army, world record holder in the 400 meters at 0:45.4, who was 0.3 sec. off that time last week; Middle-Distance Runner Arnie Sowell, a wisp of a Negro with the delicate legs of a thoroughbred, who set an American record in the 800 meters at 1 :46.7, just a second slower than the worlds record; and, of course...