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...teeming Karachi, swollen with a million refugees, energetic Pakistanis went about business as usual. Whatever legal confusion there might be to litigants, drovers with their camel carts and cabbies in their ancient Kaiser sedans still obeyed Karachi's traffic cops. Ghulam called a new "constituent convention" of 60 mem bers-seven members appointed by himself and 53 to be elected by provincial assemblies-to cooperate with him in rule by law. Until the convention assembles in May, Ghulam will do his best to contain legal chaos by seeking "the Federal Court's advice...
...Francisco, Stanford University's Research Institute and the Atomic Industrial Forum held their first conference on peacetime atomic energy, drew 530 businessmen, engineers and scientists from every corner of the U.S. At the conference, such companies as Kaiser Engineers, Glenn L. Martin Co. and American Machine & Foundry reported that they were expanding their nuclear laboratories by as much as 300%, spending up to four times as much money as before. One group of 33 companies, banded together in a combine called Atomic Power Development Associates, announced that it was upping its budget to nearly $4,000,000 this year...
Skewers & Old Lace. Dr. Claribel was an early feminist and a pioneer female medical graduate (although she never practiced). She sailed boldly through life, swathed in ankle-length dresses and huge Spanish shawls, topped off with Hindu skewers in her coiffure. Once, at the opera in Munich, Kaiser Wilhelm II offered Dr. Claribel his arm, on the assumption that she was a duchess. In art, Dr. Claribel's choices included Matisse's early Blue Nude (1907) and Cézanne's monumental Mont Ste Victoire. In sharp contrast, soft-spoken Miss Etta, an accomplished pianist and lover...
...series of telephone calls, Columnist Coates learned that the child, Larry, whose last name had been kept secret by juvenile authorities, was the son of a quiet, respectable couple living in nearby Eagle Mountain, a 150-house company town where iron ore is mined for Henry Kaiser's Fontana steel mill. To Columnist Coates, the charges against Larry seemed no worse than the offenses of thousands of other curious youngsters of his age. He had, said the record, placed his hands under the dress of a little girl, aged five. Why had he been jailed? The authorities said that...
...Kaiser-Willys announced two new models, with seven inches more in length and $300 to $400 less in price than last year's models: the Bermuda, a two-door hardtop replacing the Eagle, has a factory list price of $1,795; the Custom, replacing the Ace, has a list price...