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...Fluid Assets. In Tokyo, Jokichi Tomoda, 81, dean of Japanese pickpockets, settled down in jail after his 37th arrest, explained why he had never opened a bank account: "Everybody walking the streets is a prospective bank to draw money...
Unseen Magic. Dr. Fleming scraped off some of the mold with a loop of platinum wire and grew the stuff by itself. In the fluid in which it multiplied was a something that killed several kinds of microbes. The mold was a variety of penicillium, and Fleming called the unseen but magical substance penicillin. He wrote about it in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology. One man paid close heed: Chemist Harold Raistrick extracted a crude form of penicillin, but was advised by senior doctors that it had no future as a medicine for humans-it was too unstable. Fleming...
While the struggle between the Western and Soviet blocs occupies the center of the world stage, another drama of co-existence is taking place in microcosm in the Middle East. Four hundred miles of fluid boundary separate Israel and the neighboring Arab states. Hardly a night passes without bullets flying across that border, and last week the two hostile camps come to the verge of full-scale war when Israelis and Egyptians fought a hit-and-run battle in the Egyptian-held Gaza strip. The immediate danger of a new Arab-Israeli war seems to have passed for the moment...
...piano until the other two pianists arrived and did some excellent work with a "blocked chord" style. In All the Things You Are Watson on the alto and Ray Pitts on the tenor sax-the only two with much experience together-engaged in a beautifully fluid duet in the current "counterpoint" style. Lewis on the conga drum and Arnold Palmer on the regular drum outfit both achieved tympanic effects from their instruments in a highly amusing question-and-answer period near the end of Honeysuckle...
Prospective competitors would have to move fast indeed. Scripto is already producing 60,000 fluid graphite pencils a day, is sold out well into May. Said Scripto President James V. Carmichael: "By the time we catch up with present orders, we will be 3,000,000 units behind...