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Cops arresting them for disturbing the peace heard a thumping in their car trunk, found a live sheep there. Under a law passed in 1864, animal thieving in Idaho is still grand larceny, so the Indians were hauled off to district court in Moscow. There, Prosecutor J. Morey O'Donnell put their worries too quickly to rest. They were lucky in having the most lenient judge in the state, said O'Donnell-and if they pleaded guilty, he certainly wouldn't hang them...
...quirk of nature, twins are born joined together. Medical science unfeelingly calls them double monsters. They come in almost infinite variety: complete and otherwise well-formed babies may be joined at the back of the head, down the side, or at the buttocks; grotesquely malformed twins may have one trunk and two pairs of legs, or two heads, two pairs of arms and one pair of legs. Nearly always they share the use of one or more organs...
Crying economy, some Republicans had hacked away at the program's main trunk -funds for ECA. Most Senators agreed with ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman that the foreign aid was not charity but self-protection; the difficulty was that Europe, being in no one's constituency, had to be debated on its own merits alone. Missouri's James Kem wanted to slash off $1 billion. Ohio's Taft offered an amendment to knock off $500 million, about 16½% of the total. He would favor cutting "every reducible appropriation," foreign & domestic, Taft declared, by just about that percent...
...sound effects on each show. Webb's trickiest piece of realism came when the script called for a long-distance phone call from Los Angeles to Fountain Green, Utah. "We actually placed the call and recorded it. We got all the line clicks of the trunk lines, the rhythm of the operators as they moved the call from one relay point to another. You can't fake stuff like the authentic way an operator says 'One moment, please.' " Two telephone operators wrote in, praising the show. The telephone company wrote in, too, warning that their equipment...
After "fiddlin' and playin' " with designs for ten years, Dallas' Frigikar Corp. finally had what it wanted last week: a refrigerating unit which will cool an automobile. Fitting compactly under the hood and in the trunk compartment, the Frigikar apparatus will reduce a car's interior temperature from 100° to 70° in a matter of minutes. Price: a cool...