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...more days Santa will turn from side to side and wave his arms. And then he will probably return to his cardboard igloo in the basement of the X-Mas Corporation Outlet on Massachusetts Avenue and Mount Auburn Street...
...tragically condemned to watch the rebellion in Hungary flare and thousands die. We have power, not for liberation, but only for annihilation. This does not condemn us, however, to either defeatism and isolation or to reckless war. Russian expansion can still be blocked. Our outraged sympathies must seek their outlet in rebuilding the fortunes of both freedom and peace. Ira M. Lapidus...
...Communists. As in A Many-Splendored Thing, the author finds many excuses for the Communists. This time, it is the stupidity and repression of the British, the refusal to give the Malayan Chinese a bigger stake in Malayan life, the need for young Chinese to find an outlet for their idealism...
Hole in the Wall. The aorta is the heart's outlet, through which the left ventricle pumps freshly oxygenated blood to the entire body. A weak spot in the wall of Hickey's aorta had ruptured, blowing a hole in the adjoining wall of the right auricle, which draws in used blood from the veins and sends it on its way to the lungs to be oxygenated. Thus a large proportion of the outgoing blood was being short-circuited, clogging the right side of the heart instead of coursing into the arteries. Hickey's heart was laboring...
Young Storz, who keeps tuned to his stations with a pocket-size transistor set and earpiece (see cut), promptly lopped off KOHW's "minority programs," e.g., classical and hillbilly music, closed down the station's unprofitable FM outlet. Aiming a barrage of popular music at "the average housewife," Storz soon concocted his first giveaway scheme. The station broadcast a street address at random, paid the occupant of the "Lucky House" up to $500 if he called the station within a minute. Storz copyrighted the idea, now earns $600 a week from other stations that he has licensed...