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...whom legends glowed like beams from an August moon. Tammany (it was said) invented the canoe, discovered corn, beans, crabapples and tobacco (for use in destroying fleas). His most heroic feat was in wrestling the Evil Spirit for 50 days. Finally Tammany upended the Evil Spirit with a hip lock and tried to roll him into the Ohio River. But an immense rock stood in the way, and Tammany failed to conquer evil...
...walls (proof against radioactive contamination) are 656,000 bottled specimens of human tissue bearing the imprint of one or another of a thousand diseases, not to mention 6,332,508 slides containing tissue slices or body fluids for the diagnostic microscope. Among the institute's odd relics: a lock of Lincoln's hair and a sliver of bone from his skull; the leg lost by General Dan Sickles at the end of the battle at Gettysburg; parts of the brains of Mussolini and Nazi Boss Robert...
Hint. In Sydney, Australia, Landlord Hermanus Visser was fined $225 after a special court heard that in an effort to evict his tenants he had changed the lock of their flat, put their furniture out on the lawn, taken out the living-room windows, disconnected the water, gas and electricity, demolished the chimney...
...Safety Car Locks. Studebaker's 1956 models will be equipped with a new safety device, first in the industry, which is designed to keep doors closed in accidents, prevent riders from being thrown out of the car. In an accident, the standard locks often disengage and the doors fly open. When the new Studebaker door is closed, a lip projecting from the door automatically interlocks with a lip from the post. The safety lock is operated by the door handle. In a test last week, a dummy-carrying Studebaker equipped with the new locks drove into a concrete barrier...
...alike, even in "I-3ness." But the studies to date show that an I-2 or I-3 is likely to get into trouble: "He is relatively immature. And he's imperturbable. He doesn't care what others think of him, and before long the others lock him up. He doesn't care even then. An I-4 in civilian life doesn't have too much trouble. He gets sore at the boss, swears at him and quits, and is all right again. But you can't do that in the Navy or the Marines...