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...Mike. Hit of last week's industrial fair at Hannover, Germany, was a three-dimensional projection microscope designed by Dr. Friedrich Fehse of Hamburg. It projected repulsive little creatures (protozoa, bacilli, etc.) on a three-foot screen and enlarged them to the size of rabbits. Observers wearing polarized glasses got the shock of their lives. The blown-up varmints appeared to be swimming toward them, even reaching for them...
...casts Peter Lawford as a Raffle-ish amateur cracksman who steals both outsize emeralds and ladies' hearts. Lawford has to interrupt these interesting pursuits temporarily when the police suspect him of being the Terror, a nasty fellow who slinks about skewering London bobbies on a three-foot sword. Disguising himself as a bobby, Lawford gives Scotland Yard an invaluable assist in tracking down the Terror, thereby further endearing himself to the police commissioner's beautiful daughter (Dawn Addams), whom he has already captivated with such gems of repartee as: "I think if a jewel thief looked...
...wore a tan gabardine topcoat. Jones got off on 45, walked up the winding stairway to the observation tower atop the building. The tower door was locked, but he found a window just above the 47th floor and jimmied it open. He climbed out, stepped gingerly along a three-foot ledge to a parapet at the corner of the building, took off his topcoat, folded it neatly on the ledge, sat down and lit a cigarette. A window washer nearby called to Jones, "I know how you feel, boy. Come back." Said Jones: "I got troubles...
...fighting between the freshmen and sophomores is so disorganized and spontaneous, however. The annual "canespree" in October is a traditional event. The name descended from ancient times, and has since lost most of its meaning, but it refers to a three-foot cane that one of the two classes tries to wrest from the grasp of the other. Nowadays the canespree has become a much larger series of events, and the name-event is not as important as the tug-o'-war or the track and field events that now make up the program...
...fight for "Tombstone Hill," rising 1,200 feet from a valley on the central front, was typical. A North Korean rearguard clung to its one-man pillboxes studding Tombstone's flank. The fortifications were foxholes, each roofed over by a three-foot layer of logs, stones and earth. Each man inside had plenty of ammo and a two days' bag of rice. U.S. Marine Corsairs blasted Tombstone with rockets, seared it with napalm. Shell bursts enveloped it. G.I.s crawled up, peppering the enemy's pillboxes with small-arms fire. Those who survived held off the U.N. attack...