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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whiplash. Explosively, furiously, he swept into this confused arena. Having struck out at General George C. Marshall ("a man so steeped in falsehood, who has recourse to the lie whenever it suits his convenience . . ."), he even prevailed upon Candidate Dwight Eisenhower to eliminate from a 1952 campaign speech in Milwaukee a paragraph defending Marshall...
...Manhattan's most mysterious citizens, aging (66), ailing Frank Costello, commonly termed a gambler and tax-dodger because no more nefarious raps have been officially pinned upon him, has long been ripe for rubbing out. Now free on $25,000 bail while appealing a tax-evasion conviction (five years), Costello, a charmed-life anachronism from the Prohibition Era, could see signs that he had outlived his right to be known as "prime minister of the U.S. underworld." The obvious way for upstart mobsters to hasten the crumbling of Kingpin Costello's dark empire of crime and rackets would...
...became law. This deficit is especially serious in the parishes; more and more young priests are entering orders rather than the secular priesthood, and there were 16,000 priestless parishes in 1950 v. 4,772 in 1903. One reason is the appalling poverty of the average country cure. Dependent upon handouts for food and fuel, he often spends the winters in near-starvation, and it is becoming increasingly common for parish priests to solicit odd jobs in the neighborhood-house-painting, plastering, milking or shoe-repairing-to supplement the meager dole of the church. U.S. Catholic parishes are accustomed...
...when exposed to light of a certain wave length and loses its color when light of another wave length hits it. The Cash men are hard at work building these talented capsules into a "chemical memory" for computing machines. A transparent film impregnated with photochromic capsules can be written upon in coded dots of color by a hair-thin beam of light. A beam of neutral light that does not affect the dots can read them off in thousandths of a second, or a beam of bleaching wave length can erase them. The capsules can be made so small that...
...whole career. For the "Goo-Goo" (good government) forces he has sublime contempt: "There were the pitiable, simpering halfwits who went about nudging people in the side, pouring the devil knows what poison in their ears, and the brethren of hamlet and village, who had never seen Curley, gazed upon his countenance on posters that portrayed a baleful-eyed monster glaring out from behind prison bars . . . Nobody who has seen me has ever accused me of being wicked or depraved-looking"-which is fair to the truth, looks only considered...