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...Edward Mehren, president of Los Angeles' Squirt Co. (manufacturers of carbonated beverages), predicted the end of nickel soft drinks, urged the Government to start minting 7½? and 12½ coins for the nation's pop drinkers...
...water bags. Until the police called a halt, hundreds of women were rumped by electrified canes and battery-powered "jump boxes"-instruments which made them leap like gazelles. Thousands of women-even the tarts who gathered expectantly near hotel exits-were soaked by the Legion's merciless squirt guns, by a truck-mounted spray machine, and even, at times, by streams from the jugs which the water-gunmen used to refill their weapons...
Babyfaced, serious-eyed Bill Mauldin also takes quite a few slaps at the Mauldin who, he says, "was a very embittered little squirt" when he got out of the Army two years ago. He knocks down his war-born reputation as "overinflated, overpublicized-and I wasn't that good." When he started doing civilian strips (TIME, Sept. 24, 1945), he had 180 papers using his cartoons; now he is down to 79 (circ. about 5,000,000). He is not bitter over the cancellations: "The quality of my drawings was lousy, and I got mad when I heard everybody...
Radio rarely wields any lance more deadly than a squirt of toothpaste. The mere thought of radio talking back to the press gives most newsmen a belly laugh. Yet for the last two weeks CBS has done just that-it has criticized the press with such spirit and point that it has got right under the thick, ink-smudged hide of several Manhattan dailies...
Most termites are fanatically secretive, demanding absolute darkness. With passionate insistence, the colony avoids contact with the outside world, even with other termites. Around its boundaries are frontier guards, specialized soldiers with enormous jaws, or with syringe-like heads which squirt out corrosive liquids. So attached are termites to secrecy that a structure invaded by them seldom collapses of its own weight. They are careful to leave enough wood to support it, lest its crash expose them...