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...crave. The trio specializes in old standards (Heartaches, And the Angels Sing), and as an extra fail-safe against boredom, Frankie Ross often makes joking commentaries on the lyrics. His gags may not be immortal but usually get a laugh from someone who has just put his 459th consecutive nickel into a slot and is ready for anything. Ross also does a take-off on Baby, It's Cold Outside, turning himself into a jivey simulacrum of a Chicago mobster. In a rococo version of Ebbtide, the whole group does everything from bird calls to an imitation...
...education as for defense. Corruption, which is a tradition in Asia, is at a conventionalized minimum. "This place is amazing for Southeast Asia," said a U.S. diplomat. "The government reaches down to the village level." Added a U.S. aid official: "We can trace every expenditure down to the last nickel...
MERGER-HUNGRY New York Central is asking ICC to include it in the pending Norfolk & Western, Nickel Plate and Wabash combine that might later join the Pennsylvania Railroad. Central fears being left out as the East moves toward two giant rail networks centered about the Pennsy and the Chesapeake & Ohio...
...second prize, Poirier chose a tragicomic story by Ivan Gold, and made clear how closely it too displays the search by the writer for authentic attitudes, his impatience with conventional social definitions. Called "The Nickel Misery of George Washington Carver Brown," it tells of the death (interestingly, five of the twelve prizewinners deal with dying) of Brown, one of two Negroes in a basic training platoon. Gold satirizes the remaining main characters--the embittered Corporal Cherry, Private Hines, whose inclusion makes it clear that Gold is not particularly concerned with Brown as a member of a minority group, and Private...
...getting increasingly difficult; the newest element was so frail that it decayed almost before anyone recognized that it was around. It was manufactured, explained a lab team (Albert Ghiorso, Torbjorn Sikkeland, Almon E. Larsh and Robert M. Latimer), by coating thin nickel foil with a circular film of artificial californium (element 98) only one-tenth of an inch in diameter. Placed in a container filled with helium gas, this tiny target was bombarded by a beam of boron nuclei from the lab's heavy-ion linear accelerator. Most of the boron bullets missed, but a few scored a bull...