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...unrationed goods in short supply is to dispatch every member of the family to stand in line at different shops. Prices are about four or five times as high as in West Germany, and many families help make ends meet by selling such scarce items as coffee ($10 per Ib.) at a markup to people who do not have the time to wait in line for hours...
...football gets even with the boys who kick it around. "Upset Saturday," it is called, and last week was it. At Madison, Wis., Ohio State punched across a touchdown with 2 min. 13 sec. to go and edged No. 2-ranked Wisconsin, 13-10. At Evanston, Ill., 150-Ib. Halfback Sherman Lewis picked off a pass for one TD, bolted 87 yds. for another, and Michigan State downed No. 9-ranked Northwestern, 15-7. North Carolina State beat Duke for the first time since 1946, 21-7, and Stanford clobbered Notre Dame, 24-14, for the first time ever...
...lights in the recording studio were dimmed, and Vorsetzer, the 700-Ib. pianist, stood at the keyboard of the Steinway concert grand, all 88 fingers poised over the keys. Then the mechanical wizard began to play - first a spirited Josef Hofmann performance of Mendelssohn's Rondo Capriccioso, then further seances with Leschetizky, Paderewski, Busoni, Mahler, Saint-Saens, Debussy, Ravel. Guided by electric impulses from a collection of unique piano rolls, Vorsetzer's sensitive fingers produced all the notes with ghostly perfection, just as the turn-of-the-century masters had played them 50 years be fore. But this...
...piling up wealth with dried eggs during World War II. Today he raises 1,000,000 chicks on his own land, and, like most big growers, farms out the rest (to 220 contract farmers). The farmers get free feed from Rogers and are paid 1½? to 2? a Ib. to provide chicken houses, land, water and electricity until the birds are ready for slaughter...
...family with a medium-sized car, a refrigerator, a stove and a washing machine is apt to own about 2,500 Ibs. of steel. But the 1,100-Ib. saturation figure (which also includes the steel in the building a man works in, the bridge he crosses, the commuter train he rides in) is reached by dividing all the steel purchased in a nation each year by the entire population...