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...shots at the target on each round. With a bowler's arm-swinging motion, the curler hoists a 40-lb. circular (maximum circumference: 36 in.) stone,* and sends it slithering down the ice toward the "tee line" bull's-eye. If the stone falls short of the "hog line," it is automatically removed from the rink; if it slides beyond the scoring line, it is also out. Object of the game: to nudge an opponent's stone out of the scoring circle while leaving your own near the center. Highest possible score in an "end" (inning), comparable...
...display cases on the first level, where more than one person could look at them at one time, and where the exam thief couldn't touch them. The other exams should be individually mounted on cardboard, so the student who wants one of them doesn't have to hog a bookful. In these ways, Lamont can bring some order out of the chaos without asking the impossible of human nature...
...branch plant. Ford moved an assembly plant into Atlanta, General Motors began building Chevrolets, then Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles and Buicks in Atlanta too. Purchasing power brought refrigerator plants, refrigerator plants brought enameling plants. Dairy processors and meat packers came along as Southern workers began eating higher & higher on the hog. An estimated 14% of all U.S. industry now lies in the Southeastern...
These difficulties pain hog-raisers as well as piglets, but conservative farmers consider them inherent hazards of the business, subject at best to minor improvements. Not all non-farmers, however, are quite so pessimistic. Last week, on a farm at Shoemakersville, Pa., platoons of little pigs were enjoying a peril-free infancy, courtesy of Chas. Pfizer & Co., manufacturers of pharmaceuticals (TIME...
...Hollywood average; some of it, evidently contributed by Co-Scripter S. N. Behrman, helps Actor Leo Genn to shine as Petronius, the Roman satirist, whose dry wit enables him to needle Nero even while flattering him. As Nero, Britain's Actor-Playwright-Director Peter Ustinov is allowed to hog too much screen time, but he does some expert hamming to create the deliciously malign figure of a spoiled, sensual madman. Finlay (Great Expectations) Currie plays St. Peter with eloquent dignity, though his long speeches are marred by the camera's digressions to tasteless religious tableaux, e.g., The Last...