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Kitchen Do-It-All. Cincinnati's Nu-Tone is distributing an all-in-one kitchen gadget that operates a food-mixer, 6-speed blender, juicer and knife-sharpener off a one-fifth horsepower motor built into the countertop. Price...
Oriental children have never slept in a bed or used a knife and fork. Some of the North Africans have been brought up in caves. Since Kurdish children are to be seen and not heard, their parents seldom converse with them, and the children never learn how to ask questions. They have never seen a book or heard a bedtime story. They cannot write their names. Their inquisitiveness blocked almost from birth, they succumb to total passivity. By the time they reach school, they can speak only about 100 words...
...Memory) seems perfectly at home in this stormy period. It was a time of flagging religious faith and burgeoning superstition, when witchcraft seemed more plausible than sainthood, and not even King Philip was surprised to find that a dying man's curse was as deadly as a knife: within a year of De Molay's howled imprecation from the fire, Pope, prosecutor and the King himself had followed the Templar to the grave...
...carnival near Rome, however, their ways are interrupted by a clown who ridicules the brute constantly. While the strong man is in jail for an attempt to repay his tormenter with a knife, the clown tries to persuade the girl to leave her gorilla. Her refusal brings a philosophic reversal of his argument: he shows her that she is necessary to her owner and is fulfilling as important a place in the scheme of things as anyone else. The thought delights the girl, and she rejoins her man. But after a subsequent chance meeting in which the brute beats...
...wife went under the knife for 25 minutes to have her tonsils removed, Dr. Juscelino Kubitschek, President of Brazil, put on surgical gloves, gown and mask for the first time in years, acted as assistant to the surgeon...