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...smoking, drinking and even non-Moslem churches among the foreigners who came to draw his oil, he nevertheless took to modern inventions like a child let loose in Toyland, eventually had his palaces festooned with telephones and radios, his courtyards teeming with fleets of automobiles, including 20 sand-proof, peek-proof Cadillacs, equipped with electric fans, and a mahogany-paneled trailer, which boasts a throne room. He also acquired a DC-4, built to accommodate his custom-made wheel chair...
Several months before his latest book was published. Sexologist Alfred C. Kinsey gave newsmen a "conditional" peek at it. One of Dr. Kinsey's conditions: all newsmen had to sign a contract binding them to submit their stories in advance to Kinsey for "factual correction." Since only those who signed could see the book, most newsmen went along with the contract. But last week Kinsey tried to convert his "condition" into a principle...
Banned aboard ship by U.S. Navy, banned on Sundays by the City of Boston, The Moon Is Blue is a celluloid peek into present day American sexual mores. But only the most stodgy will find its lampooning of erotic fashions and follies other than civilized and urbane...
...Britain's vivid new airplanes are not yet in real production. It is British custom to show new models while they are still in the prototype stage. In the security-conscious (and sometimes security-bogged) U.S., a new airplane sometimes flies for years before the public gets a peek...
...date, AEC has given private industry merely a peek. AEC information has been made available to five "study teams" from ten corporations so that they can judge the possibilities of commercial atomic power. But the companies can only look, not act. Even these companies have no incentive to explore the commercial possibilities. All their discoveries and patentable processes must be turned over to the U.S. Thus, though the Government has spent $8.6 billion in its atomic program, industry has spent only a few millions. Businessmen and AEC agree that the Atomic Energy Act should be amended thus: tj Private companies...