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...catastrophe, a willing and resolute first-aider on the spot can be worth a dozen doctors in a far-away hospital. Last week, as the rumbling political volcano of Egypt blew its top in a roar of fulminant frenzy, first aid was urgently needed. It was firmly applied by a young king whom the West had long regarded as a fatuous playboy...
...billion. The probable deficit for the period will be about $14.4 billion, to bring the total public debt to some $275 billion. Truman mildly asked Congress to vote him the $5 billion which Congress chopped off his tax request in the last session (and got a bipartisan, election-year roar of rejection from Capitol Hill). Then, as if he did not really expect new taxes, he took comfort from the theory that an ever-expanding economy will more than compensate for mounting deficits...
...LaPaz pointed out that meteors big enough to penetrate the lower atmosphere do not occur in showers. The so-called meteor showers are caused by very small particles that burn out quickly far above the earth. The green color is unusual, too. Meteorites generally roar like jet planes as they approach the earth, but most observers insisted that these odd objects were completely silent. Though some of them seemed to hit the surface with a flash, brilliant even in daylight, search parties so far have found no remains of the mysterious fireballs...
...others it meant only a temporary break in the dirty business of war. They had no yarns to swap, no desire to learn any more than they already knew about war. From a few groups came the click of dice, and the only voices audible over the distant roar of engines were the urgent pleas of crapshooters. At one group, a Red Cross worker paused to chat with a sergeant who had spent 13 months in Korea. Said the sergeant: "For 15 months the guys have been running up and down these mountains getting their fannies full of lead...
...vociferous claque of rooters burst into an excited hubbub when Rocky Marciano came bouncing into the ring. But the real roar of the crowd in Madison Square Garden came for the man with the magic name: Joe Louis. Only those right at the ringside could see that Louis at 37, balding and thick-waisted, was little more than a bloated, moonfaced caricature of the famed Brown Bomber. The gamblers, out of respectful memory, made Joe a 7-5 favorite-but it was the shortest price ever quoted on the ex-champion...