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COMIC BOOKS were written for escapists. You had to be willing to go more than half-way to sweat through Superman's struggle with Dr. Galiogne stretched over four issues, or The Masked Marvel's duel to the death with The Incredible Hydro-Man. But once you were there, they never let you down and the heroes of these super-worlds were soon embedded in America's collective imagery...
...marvel of Rosemary Brown is not that she has created these pleasant little works, but that she has convinced so many seemingly qualified people that there is some degree of authenticity to her claims. A musicologist, Dr George Firth, and an educator, Sir George Trevelyan, have set up a fund to relieve her of the necessity of working for a living while she devotes her time to transmitting her great works, and taking extensive training in musicology. You are, of course, entirely welcome to contribute...
...grade employees. In some parts of the country where living costs and pay scales are high, workers at the $7,202-a-year G55 level have earned 20% less than their counterparts in private enterprise. "The money I make is so low that I can apply for welfare." says Marvel Paine, a G54 hospital clerk with the Veterans Administration in Tacoma. Many federal workers moonlight; many Washington, D.C., taxi drivers working nights and weekends are Government employees...
...office is a marvel of electronic gadgetry. On its two-story-high, 100-ft.-long trading floor, 186 men specialize in just about everything that moves in large dollar amounts-corporate stocks and bonds, Government securities, tax-exempts, commercial paper, bankers' acceptances. The illuminated, electronic quote board, largest in the world (90 ft. by 6½ ft.), shows the prices of 195 key issues. William R. (Billy) Salomon, 56, a founder's son who is now the managing partner, sits behind a desk at one end of the noisy trading floor. The buttons on his phone light...
Compartments for Cardinals. That is just what has been done abroad. Americans who travel overseas marvel at the swift, efficient and inexpensive nationalized railroad service they encounter. In France, the Paris-Marseille-Riviera express made 182 trips in a three-month period last winter and was late a total of one minute and a half. Japan's 125-m.p.h. "bullet train" between Tokyo and Osaka is the technological wonder of the Eastern world...