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...explosion crushed the nearer house (3,500 ft. away) into kindling wood. The farther house (at 7,500 ft.) was badly damaged, but left standing. In both houses, the dummies huddled under wooden basement shelters were still in good dummy condition. The FCDA's conclusion, urged strongly in its booklet: wooden basement shelters will give enough protection to justify their modest cost...
...certain amount of eyestrain appears almost inevitable" is the understatement of the week. In 2-D movies, eyes point at the screen and focus on the screen . . . 3-D techniques demand that the human turn his eyes inward, much nearer than the screen for which he is focused. Then he has a choice of letting the picture blur, seeing the object double, having nausea, dizziness or "eye-strain," or staying away from...
...Zanzibar, Perak and Selangor; Her Majesty, the Queen of Tonga. The Dukes of Gloucester and Kent entered and took up positions in the chancel. The Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, each with her ladies in waiting, moved down the aisle and took their privileged places. Outside, and ever nearer, came the sound of horses' hooves on Parliament Square...
GREECE was getting ready to swap tobacco for Polish coal; ITALY could not resist Bulgaria's bid for lemons. JAPAN industrialists, noting that U.S. coal and iron ore costs them more than twice as much as the nearer but unavailable supplies ofo the Red mainland, bluntly say: "There is no hope for the Japanese economy until trade can be resumed with China...
...Ehrlich's dream of a "magic bullet" to cure syphilis came a step nearer fulfillment. The Chicago health department treated 125 early cases with single whopping doses (2,500,000 units) of Bicillin, a variant of penicillin which stays in the body as long as a month. After a year, 94% had no sign of the disease...