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...turn, cause infection of the middle ear. A fortnight ago Joke (pronounced Yo-ka) went to Utrecht's City and Academic Hospital, 25 miles away. Doctors decided to destroy the diseased, swollen tissue with powerful gamma rays from a radium "needle"-actually a blunt metal capsule, 20 mm. by 3 mm., on a long, flexible shaft. One doctor pushed this up Joke's nose until it curved down into the nasopharynx. After eight minutes, he took the gadget out, put it in its case and sent Joke home...
Crazy Cowboys. Over Caracas at sunup the jets made lazy passes as a sign for disaffected army garrisons in the capital to rise up. Instead, tanks clanked up Urdaneta Avenue to ring presidential Miraflores Palace; 40-mm. antiaircraft guns sprouted from the roofs of the palace and the Defense Ministry across the street. At 11 a.m. four Sabre jets, three Vampires and three elderly light bombers began to cut through holes in the clouds and buzz the city low across rooftops. "Those crazy cowboys!" remarked a watching Pan American pilot from his poolside deck chair at the Hotel Tamanaco...
According to the French, "BB"-short for Brigitte Bardot-is going to replace MM as a symbol of sex. Brown-haired Brigitte, 23, is slender but softly rounded. From the neck up, though, she looks about twelve years old, and bears a striking resemblance to Shirley Temple at that age. Her movies have smashed attendance records from Norway to the Middle East, and Hollywood has bid high for her services. So far. Brigitte has preferred Paris, where she gets about 30 million francs (more than $70,000) for every picture...
...accountant in 1920. Working up the ranks, he was control manager of the tire division by 1933. His big jump came in 1941, when he rapidly organized U.S. Rubber's first venture into the munitions business, bossed a division that turned out World War II explosives, 20-mm. and 40-mm. shells. With President McGovern just three years from mandatory retirement, U.S. Rubber also tapped two leading candidates to succeed him: Vice President Eugene A. Luxenberger, 54, who started as a teen-age production hand 36 years ago, will now take over the newly created post of group vice...
...tracking camera uses an ultra fast f 1 lens with a 22-inch aperture. The image is photographed on a strip of 55 mm. CinemaScope film about one foot long. The camera can fix the satellite within one or two seconds of arc in space and within one thousandth of a second in time...