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...create the mouse and his labyrinth just for fun. They are useful in studying telephone switching systems, which are very like labyrinths. In effect, each telephone call is a mouse that has to find its way to the cheese (the called telephone) in the shortest possible time...
Five weeks ago, with Cairo literally aflame and his people running riot in the streets, Egypt's King appointed a new Premier to head his government. Last week, after the second shortest tenure (34 days) in the history of the office, the new Premier resigned. "Certain obstacles," departing Aly Maher Pasha explained to the King, "stood in the way of the completion of my mission...
...Storm. Earlier, in the tense semifinal of the group judging, Storm had beaten the defending champion boxer, Bang Away of Sirrah Crest. Standing still as a statue, the Doberman moved only his head. He was keeping an eye on the judge. After only 15 minutes, one of the shortest final deliberations in Westminster records, Judge Sims gave the Doberman the nod. Storm promptly jumped up & down and pawed and licked his handler-just as if he knew he had won. Owner Len Carey bought him as a puppy, sight unseen, and has kept him in show trim by exercising...
...British purchases of steel will not begin until the second half of the year, and will not force any cut in domestic allocations. The Defense Production Administration will specify what kind of steel Britain buys, and probably will not sell any in shortest supply...
Five-foot eleven-inch Bill Biggs, the shortest man among the Big Green starters, is the team's other high scorer. The rest of the first string includes guard Kent Calhoun, and forwards Fred Gleg and Roger Pierce...