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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Midget Recorder. A portable wire recorder, weighing slightly more than 2 lbs. and no bigger than a shaving kit, was put on the market by West Germany's Monske & Co. for businessmen or reporters who want to dictate while on the move. The Minifon is equipped with a small microphone, two dry-cell batteries, enough wire spools for 2½ hours of recording. Price...
There was no doubting Xavier's success. Starting out from Goa, he sailed and walked through southern India, Malaya and the Celebes, then to Japan. His only equipment was a breviary, his Mass kit and a large parasol to protect him from the sun. He impressed Malay sultans and Japanese feudal barons with his poise, and he could sway the commonfolk by his zeal. In three months on the island of Amboina he baptized 1,200. Some of his missionary conquests were permanent-there are Christian Indians today whose ancestors he converted. Others, like his great Japanese mission, were...
...walls, while other crews put in wiring and plumbing; before leaving, the workmen lay bathroom and kitchen tiling and an asphalt driveway. Though there is nothing inside but bare studding, the house is ready for the buyer. It is up to him to finish it off with the kit of materials Nelson provides-everything from precut wallboard to paint brushes and hardware. A man & wife can finish the house in about three weeks. After the liberal quantities of "sweat equity" have been poured in, Nelson claims, the house is worth...
...Malacca jungle last week, Acting Police Corporal Roslan Bin Haji Mohammed waited three nights for his quarry. Someone had "whispered," i.e., informed, against noisy, hunchbacked Cheung Kit Ming, better known as "the Ape of Malacca." A top Communist guerrilla, a veteran killer and terrorist, Cheung had a $25,000 price on his head. On the third night of the ambush, the Ape appeared and the police corporal shot him dead...
...dinner with the G.I.s. "The politicians back home got to bellowing that this was a forgotten war," said the Veep, "so I told the President he shouldn't come over, but I had some free time." Later, he moved up to the front, lived out of a mess kit, autographed a 105-mm. shell, and celebrated his 74th birthday...