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...fever that swept over Benny Hall Jr. brought some strange, upsetting symptoms. A $110-a-week printer in Detroit, Benny had lived contentedly for years in a $7,000 frame house, saved a nest egg of $5,000 with the help of his thrifty wife. One day in 1950 Benny Hall grew restless, excited, preoccupied. For a week or so afterward, at breakfast he riffled distractedly through the back pages of his morning newspaper. Finally he confessed to his wife:"I'm interested in the stock market...
...bond. Having met hundreds of Bennys, the broker knew just what to do. Benny, he said, should invest in shares of a mutual fund. By last week Benny Hall's investment of $5,000 had grown to $20,000 without his putting in another penny. With his nest egg bigger than he had ever hoped, Benny has used his salary and the returns from the sale of his house to buy a $30,000 home, plans to take his wife on a grand tour of Europe...
...heart of Raytheon's projected system is an "Amplitron" tube, a chunky object 2 ft. high. The tube transmits as much as 25 h.p. on a beam of 10 cm. waves shot into the air by a dish antenna. A nest of these tubes can be focused at a point about 50,000 ft. up. Some of the beams' energy will wander off into space, but Raytheon scientists believe that a saucer-shaped receiver can capture 35% to 50%. Turned into heat, this energy could drive a gas turbine which would drive the helicopter blades...
...interior is a plexus of balcony hideaways, ramps, hanging screens, near-flat areas with shelves for seats, and even a waterfall in the master bedroom. "Of course a building shouldn't be a box," Kiesler explained last week, perching by his model like a bird overlooking its nest. "It shouldn't be candy either-the candy engineering they're doing now. It needs to be flowing and opening, getting louder and softer, opening out and moving in. To be inside my Endless House will be like living inside a sculpture that is changing every second with...
Into the jungle clearing in northern Burma came a squad of seven Japanese soldiers carrying a wounded officer on a litter. A machine-gun nest of Merrill's Marauders cut them down like wheat; one of the Marauders was later rumored to have slit the throat of the helpless Japanese officer. But, says Author Ogburn, 48, who was there as a second lieutenant, "no one had the stomach to try to establish the facts." From the pockets of one of the slain Japanese spilled two objects common to men at war: a cheap gilt Buddha and a contraceptive device...