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...huge, bay-windowed Cairo office, President-Premier Mohammed Naguib last week puffed his pipe and busied himself with an agreeable task. He set out various photos of himself, cocked his head at them, then, with the help of curio dealers, selected appropriate silver frames. He was going to Khartoum in a few days as Egypt's delegate to the first session of the Sudan Parliament; the pictures would be gifts for his hosts. At 53, the native son was returning to his birthplace...
Agriculture does not obey traditional laws of supply and demand. Drouth can suddenly shut the valve in the supply pipe; military crises and fluctuating foreign markets unsettle the demand. Because framers may be caught in a severe depression while the rest of the economy prospers, Democrats and Republicans alike have regarded farm price supports as essential disaster insurance...
...Pipe Dream. VacCo Pump Co., Inc. of Indianapolis brought out a new type of pump for unclogging household drains. Working on the principle of the old-fashioned plunger, the Pull-It Pump can build up a vacuum of 15 inches with the help of a vacuum valve inside the rubber force cup. Price...
...miles per hour. 62. Recent medical claims of a connection between heavy cigarette smoking and lung cancer resulted in a group of the large tobacco companies: 1. Urging cigar and pipe smoking...
Bergson denied that he had ever passed on the U.S. Pipe Line request, but his chief defense was that "claims" against the Government under the law could involve only money or property. Judge Charles F. McLaughlin agreed and, since he directed the jury to acquit Bergson, the Government cannot appeal. Any other interpretation, said the judge, "would lead to absurd results," and he took the occasion to lecture Government attorneys that the legal interpretation of criminal laws is "not a game to be played." Brownell, who feels that there is an ethical consideration as well, announced that he would...