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...hard crust of skepticism has formed on the imaginations of Wall Street analysts since the days when mere mention of "uranium," "transistor" or other buzz words could send a stock's price skyward. A new term, however, is having that effect today: soft contact lenses. Within six weeks after officers of Bausch & Lomb, a 118-year-old optical manufacturer, enunciated the words in March, their stock had nearly doubled. Competitors have said that they will market a soft contact lens, too, with similarly salutary results...
Muskie feels there is always a television lens in front of him, and it is the wellspring of all power and he must put on his stovepipe hat. They whisper around the Capitol corridors that if Muskie had the hardness in him right now, he could seize the thing before...
The most excitement of the afternoon came in the eighth when the Crimson bullpen decided to play touch baseball-football on the freshman field. The relief hurlers warmed up on deep post patterns that would have impressed coach Joe Restic. But the contest turned into what looked like a crawling...
Photographer Frank Fischbeck recalled: "Everywhere the people were warm, healthy, round-faced, rosy-cheeked, with white teeth. I could see that through the lens all the time. They were apparently very happy. When they shook your hand they crushed it. You had to applaud in greeting and just stay away...
Died. Sherman Mills Fairchild, 74, inventor and industrialist; in Manhattan. A college dropout (Harvard, University of Arizona, Columbia), Fairchild turned a knack for tinkering into an aviation and photographic empire. While at Harvard he invented a primitive flash camera; by 1918 he had developed one of the first between-the...