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...miles from New Guinea, famed Anthropologist Margaret Mead was interrupted in her research last month by an urgent message. The district commissioner had sent a boat to tell her that New York was trying to reach her by telephone. Fearing some emergency, Dr. Mead set off on a seven-hour trip through dangerous reefs and rough seas to take the call. It turned out to be from a researcher working for Manhattan's Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn Inc. The message: "Dr. Mead, we are conducting worldwide research into the smoking habits of Americans. Would you be good enough...
...last week, on the fifth and final day of the second test match, the help materialized. The chief helper was Yorkshire Batsman Willie Watson, 32, better known as a professional soccer player than as a cricketer. England needed a whopping 363 runs to win, and there was only a seven-hour playing day (with at least 1½ hours out for luncheon and tea) to do it in. Batsman Watson, slim and serious, stepped to the wicket. With chances of victory almost nil, England's practical aim was to stay at bat all day, thus pull out another draw...
...small-town publisher, untroubled by big-city needs for several editions, the system promises real speed and savings in production. He turns on his tape-receiving machine early in the morning, gets all the out-of-town shorts and headline news stories he can use during the seven-hour run. Under most setups, he can find out what he is getting on tape by reading a companion printer which types out stories in sentence form, then he can either chop the tape to edit his stories or edit them in type. By press time, his tape-fed typesetters have clanked...
...cars pushed over the San Gabriel Mountains and into the Mojave Desert. They plunged into the 90° heat of Death Valley (some drivers sweltered with the windows up lest they cut down their streamlining), spiraled up again into Las Vegas for the night. Next day, a seven-hour drive sent them rolling across Hoover Dam, and then steadily uphill into below-freezing temperatures and snow at the finish line near the Grand Canyon...
...election as president of the C.I.O.'s United Rubber Workers of America. Fired from the presidency after a Pottstown, Pa. local president charged him with trying to disrupt the local and fomenting a riot at one of its meetings, Conservative Buckmaster cleared himself in a seven-hour debate at the union's annual convention, then beat his perennial rival, George Bass, for another term...