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Carhop. In Lima, Ohio, when Andrew Moseley got out of his car to inspect the damage after a collision, a stranger slipped in behind the wheel, drove away...
...glass doors of the Executive Wing of the White House are apt to fool a stranger-they open inward, in violation of Washington's fire regulations. In the first weeks of the Eisenhower Administration, the doors rattled constantly, as new hands tried to familiarize themselves with the place. But by last week there was little fumbling at the doors, the President and his staff had shaken down, and the office was ticking competently along...
...broad, tree-lined Merritt Parkway one night last week, a Navy chief petty officer named Franklin Jenson saw an unusual sight : an empty state police car was standing at the side of the road with its big rear warning light flashing rhythmically. He slowed. Then he saw something even stranger: a weak blink of light on the ground near the car. He stopped, got out. A white-faced state trooper was sprawled there in the darkness, working a flashlight button with his thumb, and dying from a bullet wound in his stomach...
...trick ending reveals all the preceding events to have been nothing more than a pipe dream resulting from mass hypnosis induced by a mysterious stranger (Dan O'Herlihy) as a plea for preparedness. To go with this stock plot is a good deal of stock newsreel footage of atomic explosions and battle scenes. The newsreel shots give the picture what little authenticity...
Standin. In San Francisco, a stranger stabbed Lawrance Bridges in the neck, knocked him to the sidewalk, then said: "Pardon me, I thought you were Jerry...