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...company was one of the world's leading makers of microscopes.* Its founder, Ernst Leitz, a German who had worked with a Swiss watchmaker before settling in Wetzlar, introduced the watch industry's mass-production technique to microscopy. When the Leica was added as a sideline, the tail began wagging the dog. As a worldwide craze for miniature cameras and candid photography grew, so did Leitz. By World War II, the company had 3,000 employees and was grossing $10 million a year. Then it concentrated on war work, and was so vital to the Nazi war industry...
Lesson for Today. In Montgomery, Ala., the Rev. Dallas Haygood discovered that his car had been stripped of headlights, battery, tail lights, two tires and two wheels, decided to devote his Sunday sermon to the subject of stealing...
...entire geometry class of the Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles was agreed. Not one of them could make head or tail of the problem: "The common external tangent of two tangent circles of radii 8 inches and 2 inches is - ." Fortunately, the class secretary, 15-year-old Johanna Mankiewicz, had an inspiration. All the class had to do, she decided, was to write a letter to the Most Famous Physicist in the World...
Admission to the Coke-tail Party is by invitation only...
Cabot Hall girls are tired of jolly-ups. Tonight they are planning a revolt against the traditional affairs--an informal "Coke-tail" Party...