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...Cows. Universal Match this week unveiled a machine that deals out 22 brands of cigarettes at chest level, thus eliminating stooping. At Wheaton, Md. last week, the U.S. Post Office opened a vending-machine post office in a shopping center, complete with bill changers and stamp, envelope and postcard dispensers. Vending companies are working to crack the softgoods market, which, apart from hosiery and handkerchief machines, has so far resisted broad mechanization...
...could take the grind. Professors expected a freak with a photographic memory, discovered instead a welladjusted, serious child who thought logically, had a zest for ideas, and made subtle, discriminating judgments. At home, he was well behaved, with a normal ten-year-old's enthusiasm for baseball, marbles, stamp collecting. "Mike," his mother once shouted, "put away your blocks and study your humanities...
...even if the Defense Department never orders a single plane, Convair sees a civilian market for the plane as a bush carrier and fire fighter. Whatever comes of it, its debut marks a return to the days of invention and daring when an aircraft maker put his own stamp on an aircraft design without the backing of a Government contract, then went out and drummed up buyers...
...National Assembly, only a rubber stamp of the regime in any case, has been purged of the few remaining "retrogrades" and "unworthy militants." Ben Bella's scattered opposition now works aimlessly toward some kind of unity. Its leaders find that though the masses are apathetic toward Ben Bella and his "Islamic socialism," they seem equally indifferent to the rebels; even Rebel Chief Aït Ahmed has been complaining of "public lassitude." Perhaps the wisest Algerian of them all is Mohammed Khider, who made his opposition to Ben Bella clear by going into self-exile in Europe, and took...
...medicine for the Congo. At Albertville, he picked up at least three valuable exhibits: a series of photographs showing the rebels executing leading citizens, a 22-year-old Burundi prisoner who, Tshombe claims, was a "captain of the rebel general staff," and a symbol of revolutionary arrogance-a rubber stamp marked "République Révolutionnaire du Congo, Secteur Albertville." Evidence in hand, he took a much more important step toward winning African sympathies: as he left for Addis Ababa, Tshombe ordered the hated white mercenaries shipped home...