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Profit with Honor. RCA's lonely pioneering in color television cost it well over $130 million before the first profits began trickling in two years ago. But the company's seven-year lead really began to pay off in 1962, when color TV sales tripled to 450,000 sets. RCA made about 55% of them and produced the innards of the rest. The picture tube in every U.S. color TV set is produced by RCA, which is now expanding its plant to keep up with demand. In all, color TV probably brought half...
Before the seven-year Mau Mau scourge was eliminated in 1959, the British colonial government decided that it must counter witchcraft with witchcraft, and devised elaborate de-oathing rites, but they were not always successful. Once, when authorities persuaded tribesmen to abjure their bonds to the Mau Mau by sacrificing a goat, a Mau Mau agent slaughtered two dogs, nullifying the "goat oath" with the more potent magic of the "dog oath...
...instruments are the creations of French Sculptor Francois Baschet, 42, whose musical skill is limited to strumming a bar or two on a guitar equipped with an inflatable red plastic doughnut as a sounding board. During a seven-year sabbatical, the thought struck Baschet that all the world's music came from antiques. "For 150 years," says he, "the only instruments that have been invented have been the saxophone, the musical saw and concrete and electronic music. Why?" Baschet began to think of new ways of making noise...
...when she was 24, Lee Shubert gave her a job as show girl in the Broadway revival of the Ziegfeld Follies. One night at a party she met Darryl Zanuck, who arranged a screen test on the basis of which 20th Century-Fox signed her for a seven-year contract. Ceezee did not bowl over Hollywood. After nine months of coaching and study, but no screen credits, she went back to Boston. But Ceezee was not to be completely without an audience. On a trip to Mexico in 1945, she met Diego Rivera, who immediately wanted to paint...
...York City. Throughout World War II and into the '50s, Robert Soblen and Jack Soble turned over to the Soviets secret U.S. information; much of it dealt with the activities of the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime U.S. counterespionage system. Jack was nabbed first and given a seven-year sentence. Then Robert was picked up, and his brother was the chief witness against him in his trial...