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Trimmed. In Noble, Ill., a price war between the town's two barbers ended abruptly when Barber Joe Smith cut his haircut fee from 75ç to free, had to lock up shop to keep out the crowds...
...months-long fit of timorousness, the State Department has acquired the unpleasant habit of locking up educators, visiting scholars, and students on Ellis Island. And as if the incessant lock-ups are not enough, State meets requests for information with all the loquacity of a laryngitic clam. Those within Ellis Island stockades have not the slightest idea of their supposed misdemeanors, and those in American trying to help are kept equally ignorant...
...What we lack," says Dr. Kubie sadly, "is a magic mirror which would make it possible for [an] individual to look 10 or 20 years into the future to see the price that he will pay for [the] nagging problem which he is able to lock up in some watertight compartment today...
...American Dental Association that at the age of 45. one out of every two men will have lost all his teeth or will be suffering from a disease of the gums or jawbone. For the toothless unfortunates, Dentists Stanley ]. Behrman and George F. Egan described a new method of locking false teeth in place with magnets. Protected by plastic and tantalum mesh, the magnets are imbedded in the jawbone and lock tight against similar magnets built into the denture...
...pods. They gave the "Scorpion," said the Air Force, the heaviest firepower of any U.S. fighter. Although the big, heavy Scorpion is full of radar equipment, it can climb higher than 40,000 ft. Its radar eyes can search out an enemy plane in night or thick weather, "lock" the Scorpion on a collision course with the enemy, and when within range, automatically fire its rockets. The new interceptor, which the" Air Force expects to be in the first line of defense against atomic attack, has already earned an admiring nickname from Northrop's workers: the "Grand Slam...