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...Atlantic searched the darkness one night last week. Suddenly they gaped; far above, starbright and hell-hot, a thing-it looked like a meteor-plummeted through the stars of the heavens and then disappeared over the horizon. Hours later in Washington, U.S. spacemen announced the news: Big Joe, the funnel-shaped prototype of the vehicle that will carry the first U.S. man into space in 1961, had been shot aloft in a test and had been recovered intact. Had a man been inside for the historic flight, he would have made his return in complete safety...
...night after a burglar has broken in. As the refugees huddle breathlessly in the loft, the suspicious Germans stretch out their investigation for long, agonizing minutes. As they prowl, Stevens' camera flashes to a shot of the family cat, perched on the drainboard. its nose prodding a small funnel toward the edge, its rear leg scuffing against a plate. The fugitives-and the audience-can do nothing but watch the animal in paralyzed silence...
Actually, the Antitrust drive to stop fixing prices and allocating territories in the garment industry began a long time ago. In the Truman Administration the Antitrust Division indicted the Women's Sportswear Manufacturers Association for a conspiracy to fix prices and funnel orders to Association members designated by the union as in good standing. But at that time it was not the division policy to name I.L.G.W.U. as a defendant in the suit, only the employer group. Says Bicks: "We waited years for the unions to clean up this kind of situation. They did not. So we finally indicted...
When all the Colaborer lands are plowed and planted, George Sutton wants to start other enterprises and funnel their proceeds to other missions deeper into the backlands. "I'm liable to do some Bible-pounding myself,'' he says, "and boy, they sure could use encouragement. I saw a lad here trying to read a Portuguese Bible-upside down. It's a shame, when you think of folks at home who know how to read but never even open the Bible...
...liquid could pass through it into his stomach. So surgeons cut into his abdomen, made a hole in his stomach where they attached it to the muscle wall. For the rest of his life, Tom had to feed himself by chewing his food and spitting it into a funnel from which it passed through a rubber tube inserted in the hole in his stomach...