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...Navy Fireman Paul Basom swore that guards ordered him "to have a bowel movement in front of other prisoners. Then one man poured lighter fluid under me and lighted it. When it got hot I ran." Basom said he was later ordered by another guard to put out a burning cigarette with his bare feet...
...ones she returns are about law. The girl cannot understand her employer's anger: "They're the same bindings . . . They weigh just the same . . . Five there were, and five there are now." Not all of Author Moravia's works weigh the same; these stories are considerably lighter than the best of his novels (The Fancy Dress Party, Conjugal Love). But while Moravia's stories may lack charity and depth, his settings are hauntingly real, and his characters are as convincing in their speech as they are moving for their philosophy of resignation...
...Reid took over the ailing paper with the titles of president, publisher and editor. Brownie Reid, Yale '49, brought with him a $2,250,000 insurance company loan on the 20-story Herald Tribune Building in midtown Manhattan (41st Street) and an ambitious two-year plan for a "lighter, brighter" Trib...
Soon thereafter the Trib became lighter-if not brighter-by the departure of a dozen disgruntled top Trib hands, among them City Editors Joseph Herzberg and Fendall Yerxa, Pulitzer Prize-winning Correspondent Homer Bigart (who went to the Times). The revamping job turned the paper into a vamp, neither Times nor tabloid-nor Trib. By then the smallest of Manhattan's seven major dailies, the Herald Tribune earned the additional distinction of being the only morning paper that had a substantial weekday circulation drop: from a 1955 peak of 387,276 to 367,248 this year. And despite such...
...Government's most costly and coddled cold-war babies was its crash program to mass-produce titanium, the "wonder metal'' that is lighter than steel and tougher than aluminum. To get the metal for supersonic planes, the U.S. gave out some $215 million in federal loans, stockpile-buying contracts and research grants that helped boost production of titanium sponge from 75 tons in 1950 to 14,000 tons last year. More than 90% of the 1957 output was bought by the Government. But last week the Government and producers alike were willing to concede that titanium...