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...periphery of the retina, the best way to see an object at night is not to look directly at it but at a point near it. The catch in this off-center technique is that it handicaps a person in judging his distance from an object; pedestrians sometimes walk smack into a truck at the curb because they suppose that the dark mass they see is a building across the street. Dr. Miles offers a tip on how to judge distance at night: the nearer an object is, the fuzzier its outlines are; move the head from side to side...
...trolley and bus-line operators are riding smack into the worst crisis in their history: a crush of new passengers, a crying need for new equipment, an acute labor shortage...
Disease. From a family standpoint, Don Francisco Franco had plenty of reason to smack down his upstart inlaw. Serrano had dutifully fathered the six children of Señora Zita, handsome sister of Franco's wife. But a few months ago, Spaniards reported with bitter humor, Serrano had presented his wife with a social disease. His name was linked in Madrid café jingles to at least three women: the wife of a South American diplomat, the sister of a Spanish writer and a comely actress...
...Treasury ran smack into a serious shortage problem last week when Internal Revenue Commissioner Guy Tresillian Helvering estimated that to collect the proposed 5% withholding tax on salaries his bureau would need 50,000 new machines and pieces of office equipment, plus 11,000 new employes. Private businesses would likewise need thousands of machines and payroll clerks...
...chance to fight sooner than he expected. On the second day that he walked into his office he landed smack in the middle of one of the senseless, directionless, back-biting family quarrels that have racked WPB from the start...