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...I.P.C. had plenty of oil, capital and cooks (too many). But its trouble was not over. Its fields are smack in the middle of nowhere, and the two pipelines to the Mediterranean were greatly inadequate. I.P.C. began building new lines. One, through Palestine, was stopped by the Arab-Israeli war, and has never been completed. Another, through Lebanon, was finished but quickly proved too small. A third, through Syria, ran afoul of Syrian government scheming...
...fours in signals position and try to push him over. One day the great director, John Ford, joined the game. Duke took his stance. With a deft kick Ford knocked his hands from under him, and the property man's face hit the floor with a smack. It was very funny. Everybody laughed. Duke got up, his face expressionless. "Let's try that once again," he said. Ford nodded. This time Duke charged forward, sent the director flying across the floor on his rear...
...irritation experiments. Philip Morris, for example, bubbled smoke of different brands of cigarettes through water, then dripped the solution on to a rabbit's eyelids. It claimed Philip Morris smoke produced less irritation. Rivals made more direct tests. They developed smoking machines and eyecups to blow smoke smack against the rabbit's eyelid, claimed they found no measurable differences in brands. To measure the amount of swelling caused by protective fluids rushing into the smoke-filled eyes,* testers even trimmed off the upper lids, weighed the membranous linings, then dried them in an oven, and weighed them again...
...Saigon, after a reporting tour of Indo-China, British Novelist Graham (The End of the Affair) Greene applied for a U.S. visa, ran smack into the clause of the McCarran exclusion act which automatically forbids U.S. entry to any alien who was ever a member of a totalitarian party. Greene's difficulty: during his Oxford days in the early '20s, he joined the Communist Party "as a prank," paid dues for a month before he dropped out, later to become a soul-searching Roman Catholic. In Washington, the State Department turned the Greene case over to the Justice...
Winchell is a member of a minority group, and therefore shouldn't sound off about being the "foremost champion of human rights," when it's his duty to stand up for the minorities. La Baker's persistent invasions of plush society spots smack of a trite proverb: give her enough rope and she'll hang herself! Sugar Ray's threat to withdraw from the Damon Runyon Memorial Fund (unless the situation is cleared up) is detrimental to his reputation as a champion. Is the fund a project for saving thousands of cancer victims...