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...dead man's body were his dip-Ipmatic passport, personal papers, $180, and Bob Vogeler's silver cigarette lighter. In his compartment, luggage and attache case were intact. No signs of robbery or struggle were evident...
...home for reassignment. At Vienna, the burly former destroyer commander visited the wife and sister-in-law of his old friend and fellow Annapolisman, Robert Vogeler, the American businessman jailed as a spy by Communist Hungary (TIME, Feb. 27). Mrs. Vogeler gave him her husband's silver lighter-"to keep until you can give it back to Bob." Then Captain Karpe boarded the blue-and-gold Arlberg-Orient Express for Paris...
...honor was won not by one of the lighter, cheaper cars, but by the relatively big (3,600 Ibs.), middle-priced Mercury. The winning model, entered by Long Beach Dealer Art Hall, rolled up 61.27 ton-miles per gallon. More surprising still, the even heavier and more expensive Cadillac, represented by several entries, won both second and third places, getting 59.12 and 58.56 ton-miles respectively. Among the low-priced cars, a Ford 6 outperformed both Chevrolet and Plymouth; in higher price ranges, a Kaiser Special, Studebaker Land Cruiser and Frazer Manhattan won top honors...
...proton and one neutron in its nucleus. When two deuterium nuclei are fused together, they form a helium nucleus (two protons and two neutrons) that weighs less than two deuterium nuclei. As in uranium fission the weight loss turns into free energy. It is this fusion of lighter nuclei into helium that will power the hydrogen bomb...
Even. In St. Joseph, Mo., when a 17-year-old customer returned to the Townsend and Wall department store to complain that a costly cigarette lighter he had bought was no good, the store retorted that neither was his check...