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...like if Smith got elected: the Pope and a dozen fat priests sitting happily around the table, with Smith, in bellboy livery, serving them liquor. Out in the boondocks. Smith haters showed audiences a photograph of Governor Smith at the inauguration of New York City's Holland Tunnel in 1927, warned that he was planning to extend the tunnel to the basement of the Vatican if he got elected President...
...central Italy during World War II the Germans have set up a concentration camp for Jewish children, most of whose parents have been liquidated, not far from a good-sized convent. Italian partisans promptly dig a tunnel under the fence, and the Italian guards look the other way while the children escape. Nuns meet the children at tunnel's end and hide them in the convent crypt until partisans can pick them...
...Rose Polytechnic Institute in 1929 and, although he had several better-paying offers, took an engineering job with NASA's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, at $2,000 a year. Starting at Virginia's Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, he helped design the first full-scale wind tunnel, moved to Cleveland's Lewis Laboratory in 1943 and plunged into jet-engine research. Today...
...only twelve years ago by Masaru Ibuka. a onetime radio-station repairman, Sony now exports 25,000 pocket radios a month to the U.S. and Canada, will soon introduce a portable, all-transistor TV set. Next month it will also start exporting a new semiconductor that it invented: a "tunnel diode." U.S. companies have found it so superior to present diodes for many uses that Gen eral Electric, RCA and others are hustling to mass-produce their...
...vision in which he saw the precise position of seven black and three white men, still alive. When he pointed to the place to dig, mine officials, who had insisted all along that there was no hope, said it was 1,100 ft. away from the nearest tunnel. Seer Kleinhans then had a second vision in which he saw all ten dying at exactly 9:15 Friday morning. Though rush rescue attempts had stopped by that time, the mine operators expect eventually to get out all of the bodies. Reason: Africans usually refuse to work in any mine where bodies...