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...room," the passenger said. "Does your ticket say for you to get off here?" asked the driver. "No, sir," said the passenger, "I'm going to Hattiesburg." The driver shut the bus door. "Then you get back in your seat." he commanded, "and don't you move till we get to Hattiesburg." Meekly, the passenger did as he was told...
...simply "disappeared from the battlefield." In the most decisive battle of World War II, the Russians, breaking through west of the city on the front held by 220,000 men of Mussolini's Italian Expeditionary Force among others, hurtled on across the Don steppes and never finally stopped till they got to Berlin. In six weeks of catastrophic rout and retreat, the Italians' ten divisions suffered casualties officially estimated at 115,000 men. Of these, they evacuated 30,000 wounded and listed 11,000 as dead. Later, the Russians returned 10,000 Italian P.W.s. What became...
...week's end the small change was jingling into the till so fast, Telemeter-man Fitzgibbons figures that, with 3,000 installations already guaranteed, he needs only another 4,000 sets in Etobicoke to break even, hopes eventually to snare most of Toronto's 356,000 TV receivers for Telemeter. If Telemeter scores a Canadian success, Paramount may then take another crack at the U.S. market and its estimated 50 million TV sets...
...last week, Walston & Co., one of Wall Street's largest brokerage firms, found that the computer is no more honest than the hand that feeds it. In eight years, Walston Vice President and Computer Specialist Frank B. Haderer, 50, had stolen more than $260,000 from the electronic till, to become the first known big-league electronic embezzler...
...life with broken noses. Husbands were cruelly vindictive to errant wives. When the Dame de Fayel's husband discovered that she kept her dead lover's heart in a casket, he had it plucked out and served up in a stew. Though the clergy openly kept concubines till the 16th century, bodily love bore the taint of anathema. Sample bedgear for many a medieval wife was the chemise cagoule, "a heavy nightdress with a suitably placed hole through which the husband could impregnate his wife while avoiding any other contact...