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Matusow was in good voice and-for part of the time-in good humor. On the stand he idly twisted pipe cleaners into animal forms, shaping a dog, a rabbit and a kangaroo. He testified that he had recently invented "an entertaining, nondestructive toy," but he refused, claiming the immunity granted by the Fifth Amendment, to name the manufacturer for fear of hurting the toy's sales. Curious, Senator Herman Welker persisted: What was the toy? A miniature lie detector? "Well," said Matusow coyly, as the hearing-room crowd roared, "I call it a stringless...
...court position that FPC control will mean saving to consumers. They point out that more than 90% of the costs occur after the gas leaves the field. Phillips Petroleum Co., for example, now sells gas from the Texas Panhandle for 9.5? per 1,000 cu. ft. to Michigan-Wisconsin Pipe Line Co. which delivers it to Milwaukee for 35?. The Milwaukee Gas Light Co. then charges the housewife a whopping $2.13 the first...
Some companies have threatened to shut down interstate gas operations rather than go under FPC control. American-Louisiana Pipe Line Co., Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. and Texas-Illinois Gas Co. have either slowed down their expansion or postponed plans for new pipelines since many of the big producers refuse to sign long-term contracts. In Texas, more and more producers are talking of selling to local markets exclusively to dodge federal controls, use their gas in Texas towns and the state's burgeoning petrochemical industry...
...figure of Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment has important philosophic implications. There are comparable conceptions of the Superman in other countries: in England, Marlowe's Faustus; in Germany, Nietzshe's Ubermensch; in America, "Superman Comics." With his pipe clenched slightly crooked through an ironic smile, Professor Renato Poggioli warmed to his subject. And if the mark of a brilliant teacher is his ability to remain popular while insulting, threatening, and deliberately patronizing his students, then Poggioli must certainly be brilliant...
...accrbic brilliance of the instructor, or simply to the fascination of the reading itself, there is no doubt that Poggioli is one of the most unorthodox lecturers around. His students are attracted to him as inevitably as he is to wisecracks. And while he always lectures with a pipe in his teeth, he does not always notice that it is sometimes upside down...