Word: sweepers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week in Ghaziabad (pop. 50,000), near Delhi, dark Kali reasserted herself through a dirt-poor street sweeper. Hari Singh came home one day to find that his two pigs had wandered off and were locked up in the pound. He had no money to redeem them. That night as he slept, Black Kali came to him in a dream and told him what he must do to get his pigs back. The next...
...seek power? No, hang it! I may be your President, but I am not the sweeper in this house." Thus snapped Antoine Pinay, when members of his Independent Party pressured him to take on the job of trying to form a new government. Two other Premiers had already tried and failed: Socialist Guy Mollet, representing the biggest bloc (100 seats) among the parties who more or less govern France, and Rene Pleven, whose left-center U.D.S.R. is the smallest (7 seats...
Ideal Toy Corp. thundered into round-the-clock production with a sleek new $4.98 "Satellite Launcher/' complete with rotating radar tracking station, which can fire four plastic disks 75 ft. into space. Another gadget: a $7.98 "Sky Sweeper Truck." which beams searchlight silhouettes of jet planes against a wall, shoots them down with two "Nike" rockets. In seven days Ideal shipped out 100,000 Satellite Launchers, another 50,000 Sky Sweeper trucks. "This may be a propaganda blow to the U.S.," cried an Ideal executive...
Best Defense. In Salt Lake City, police confiscated the slingshot of a street sweeper after passers-by reported he was taking potshots at pigeons...
...atomic bomb requires a higher order of intelligence than die making, but . . . the atomic scientists and Detroit's die makers are links in the same chain. The atomic scientist, for all his education (and probably finer moral development), is no more entitled to obstructionist tactics than the lowliest sweeper in the smallest die shop. We elect men to establish policy. We hire others to carry these policies out. Just who in hell do these physicists think they...