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...eyes get out of level, and the octopus no longer knows which way is up -or, for that matter, down. Humans and other higher vertebrates are not handicapped in this way. Their more elaborate brains make allowance for the position of the eyes and keep the world from slanting whenever the eyes slant...
...their distinctive, Roman-influenced legal system, which features 15-man juries, permits the un-English verdict of "not proven"-meaning "we know you did it, but we haven't got enough to pin it on you." With justice, Scotsmen boast that their school system (which teaches the Scottish slant on British history) is superior to England's. The true Scot scorns such English institutions as cricket and fish and chips, preferring a hip-twisting Scottish reel and finnan haddie simmered in milk, which he compares to the finest French cuisine...
Because of the outward slant of the Diamond, the pair had to use "tension climbing," searching the expanse of crumbling granite for solid spots, hammering in pitons to build a ladder of rope and expansion belts. Sudden gushes of icy water down crevasses drenched them repeatedly. At times they dangled in space 20 ft. out from the face of the Diamond. As they fought their way up, the acoustics of the mountain carried wisps of their comments to the gathering crowd below: "Say, I think it's getting colder again." Dusk of the second day found them precariously camped...
Electra's troubles have already been a heavy blow to Lockheed. When the planes were first delivered, airlines complained about vibration, and Lockheed spent some $7,000,000 changing the slant of the planes' engines to correct it. Since the new troubles, Lockheed's stock has been sliding steadily, last week closed at 20½ v. its 1960 high of 32⅞. Worry among stockholders has grown so great that last month Bob Gross took pains to point out that Electra sales in 1960 will account for only about 15% of total sales of more than...
Ford Startime (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Still trying to live up to its boast, "TV's Finest Hour" presents a Hitchcock slant on unsavory antics in suburbia...