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...Pope obviously cannot steer the bark of St. Peter alone. It is false to assume that he only has to say something into a speaking tube to alter course or speed. The officers and the crew, while disciplined and obedient, have views of their own that the man on the bridge cannot ignore. The Pope's advisers reflect all shadings of opinion. Among notable men around the Pope...
...dropped out of Howard County Junior College after one semester to groom her 4-H animals for this year's shows, had her first taste of glory last February. Then, one of her steers won the grand-championship at Fort Worth's Southwestern Exposition, and was sold to Texas Publisher Amon Carter for $6,000. Sue dutifully turned the money over to her family, hard hit by the drought. At Chicago last week, Hotelman Albert Pick bid $20 a lb. for Sue's steer, highest price ever paid at the Chicago show.* Sue, who paid...
...owners and swank restaurants have them. Your reporter might be surprised to see the towns and stores that don't carry as good a quality as the "good," but at a "good" price ; and much of that hamburger and lower-priced meat isn't from the 14? steer, either; it comes from that 6? and 8? cow that we have been selling . . As for your solution of "... a wider attempt to breed better-grade cattle with less waste . . ." one would assume that we are still marketing the scrubbiest of the old Longhorns. Have you never heard of purebred...
...built around spinning gyroscopes, whose "rigidity in space" makes them try to keep pointing in a fixed direction. An instrument hitched to one or more of these gyros can tell how much the airplane is turning or canting, almost as if it were hitched to space itself. Similar gyros steer torpedoes and airborne guided missiles...
...trouble today, concluded Adwoman Fitz-Gibbon, is that too many college placement bureaus never dream of putting their brightest liberal-arts graduates into "lush" secretarial jobs or the retail-store business, but send them into "fusty, dusty publishing houses ... I think the reason you people steer them there-one college places a full third of its graduates in jobs of that type-is because of our American Puritanical background. If it was hard and dull and didn't pay much, it was good for you, and the harder and duller and littler it paid, the more respectable it must...