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...when you buy a cake of soap only to find that two-thirds of the package volume is box, wrapping and air, and one-third is soap, there is a subtle but unmistakable letdown feeling. The same applies to boxed cereals and crackers that supposedly 'settle' in shipment. Misleading packaging is bad business, and people just won't stand for it much longer...
...claimed Tshombe, announcing grimly: '"I will not tolerate this situation." The Congo political cycle was turning dangerously close to where it all began during the first bloody months of independence only 15 months ago. Preparing for a possible new round of civil war, U.N. forces got their first shipment of eight jets (from Sweden and Ethiopia) last week, and one Congolese Cabinet officer bought a bulletproof vest from a discreet St. James's tailor in London...
Cholera is spread by any means that gets Vibrio comma from the feces of one victim to the digestive tract of the next-chiefly contaminated water and food. To keep the disease out of other parts of Asia, shipment of fresh fruits and vegetables into or out of Hong Kong was banned. In the Philippines and Formosa, less than two-hour flights away, raw food from Hong Kong was seized and burned. The Philippines, which have a heavy, regular and effective program of cholera vaccination, began giving booster shots but reported no cases. Formosa hurriedly got out its needles...
...gift: the personal and public papers of a 1935 alumnus, the late Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. Donated to the university by the Senator's widow and ex-research assistant. Jean Kerr McCarthy (soon to become the wife of Civil Aeronautics Board Member G. Joseph Minetti), the first shipment of 30 packing cases contained mostly press notices of the Senator's storm-tossed career. But the remaining material, with its dossiers on his bétes rouges, would undoubtedly be more incendiary-and possibly libelous. Said an official of the Jesuit university, who assumed that Mrs. McCarthy...
...Assiduously cultivated in the company's advertising ("The Royalty of Television Sets"), the reputation is deserved-though Zenith does not get into the really expensive custom field. Every sixth worker on the Zenith production line is a quality inspector, and TV sets that have already been cleared for shipment are pulled back at random for further testing. Six years ago, when most other makers of TV sets began switching heavily to printed circuits, which were cheaper to make but difficult to repair, Zenith stayed with easier-to-fix hand-wired circuitry. In gratitude, thousands of TV repairmen became enthusiastic...