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...would be right." Parp! Parp! Last week, at the Stoll Theater, Noddy and his friends went through a typical Noddy plot. As the curtain opens, Noddy is peacefully driving his Toyland Taxi ("Parp parp! Parp parp!"), when all of a sudden the Red Goblins appear. They tip over lamp posts, steal the keys that wind up the clockwork clowns, let all the animals out of Noah's ark. And who gets blamed for all the mischief? Little "Niddy Niddy Nod" Noddy, of course...
Gunfire in the Square. A round-faced shock-haired man rose 40 ft. away, pointed a pistol at Nasser and began firing carefully and evenly. Eight shots rang out, and resounded all over Egypt by radio. A glass lamp shattered overhead and showered shards of glass; the left breast of Nasser's uniform grew dark with a stain that looked like blood, but still Nasser stood, thrusting aside friendly hands that tried to pull him down out of danger. Then he stepped back to the microphone and in a hoarse voice, wild and throbbing, screamed again and again...
Better Head Lamp. After four years of joint research, a group of auto headlamp manufacturers has produced a brighter, sealed-beam lamp, with redesigned lens and hooded filament that throw the beam more to the right side of the road and screen out stray lights above the beam pattern. The new sealed-beam unit fits current models. Price: about...
With the hurricane lamp...
...avert surprise invasions by crop pests, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has developed fluorescent "lamp traps." Luring the "advance-guard" moths of crop-destroying grubs (e.g., tobacco budworms, cotton bollworms) with near-ultraviolet "black light," the traps soon collect a representative catch, give farmers as much as three weeks' time to prepare counter-measures against each type of invader...