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...these cleaning trucks that dutifully swep the one hundred and thirty-five miles of Cambridge street. They are triangular, orange colored machines costing about eight thousand dollars each, with a single rear wheel for steering. Two large steel brushes whirling on the sides root the dirt out of the gutter while a large rear brush flips in into a conveyor belt that carries the mess into a big hopper. The trucks look pretty ungainly and make plenty of noise, but actually they are quite graceful. The secret is in the rear wheel steering that allows them to turn...
Vice President Richard Nixon had a tough and unwanted assignment: he had to defend the Administration and the President against Adlai Stevenson's criticism, and, in passing, he had to reprove Joe McCarthy and take account of McCarthy's gutter tactics. Nixon handled the assignment with dignity and dispatch. He and the President had agreed in advance, he said, "that this issue is too important to answer in kind with a rip-roaring political tirade before a cheering partisan audience...
...Dealers" did not intend U.S. troops to win a victory in Korea. "Then," said Jenner in a prepared speech, "[they] stooped to the ultimate depths-they gave away the victory our men had won with their blood." This the New York Times aptly characterized as "slander straight from the gutter...
...boss, Heinz Nordhoff, 55, a compact (5 ft. 10½ in., 165 Ibs.) man with the steady eyes of a production whiz and the courtly manners of a diplomat. Six years ago, both Nordhoff and Volkswagen were part of the wreckage as Germany itself lay in the gutter of the world...
Following the careers of two gangsters from rags to riches, both pictures are in the Horatio Alger tradition. Then the camera watches while the mobsters go back to the gutter, each weighing several pounds more than he had immediately before death. Since both are rather antique, the photography, sound, and much of the acting and direction are adolescent by modern standards. It is mostly the superior villainy of Messers. Cagney and Robinson that makes the films wonderful. Cagney brushes grapefruits into his lovely breakfast partner's face--no, not Jean Harlow, he meets her later. And in addition...