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...main railway station, hoping to pick up some pocket money for washing car windows, when the villain of the piece sidled up to them. "Want to earn some money?" he murmured. "Mail this package for me. I'm in a hurry." He handed them a heavy parcel and three marks. Three marks (70?) was big money for such an errand...
Reichert, ill with the flu, left his bed to help. At police headquarters he turned the keys of his car over to a policeman, "in case something happens to me." In an old air-raid shelter near by, Reichert, assisted by two cops, gingerly opened the parcel and took out Volume L-Z of a standard German encyclopedia. "Hmm," wondered a cop, "why would anyone send the Chancellor an encyclopedia?" A moment later, a blinding flash hurled him to the wall; two hours later, Reichert was dead from the bomb meant for Chancellor Adenauer...
...weeks, TV owners will know whether they will be able some day to switch on their sets without fear of rendering their children slightly neurotic. The Federal Communications Commission will soon decide whether two hundred TV channels shauld be devoted to educational purposes, and if so, how to parcel them out among the many localities and organizations that have requested them...
...training and should be made familiar with the materials and the machines used in mass production, and their designs should be geared to make use of those materials and machines. Gropius' esthetic notion was deceptively simple. Recognizing that the beauties of nature's creation are part and parcel of their functions, he argued that man's creations too should combine usefulness with beauty...
...worldly little circle of summer friends taking their cues and comforts from well-heeled Sam and Sara Dunn, Sam's cousin Peter Cowley is a bit of a boob, but useful. Peter's job is to tame and tutor the circle's mischievous parcel of small fry in an impromptu summer school; his joy is to roam off into the woods alone munching an apple and chewing on the word of God. On one such solitary jaunt, he sees a vision, not God but a proof "that there is God, and that we matter...