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Clean Sweep. A bantamweight vacuum cleaner was readied for the market by Westinghouse Electric Corp. Designed so it can be carried about the house on a shoulder strap, the 7-lb. 3-oz. Porta-Vac is about the size of a portable radio but is 80% as powerful as a full-size vacuum cleaner. Price...
...claiming world supremacy. In Tide last week, he listed 52. Among them: "World's most widely used sound-conditioning materials" (Celotex); "World's most personal fountain pen" (Ester-brook); "World's greatest show of guaranteed values for home" (Fruit of the Loom); "World's only vacuum cleaner that cleans four ways at once" (Lewyt); "World's most advanced refining developments" (Mobilgas); "World's largest cordage laboratory" (Plymouth); "World's largest-selling denture cleaner" (Poli-dent); "World's strongest folding chair" (Samsonite); "World's thinnest electric shaver" (Schick...
...suspicious. Recently, on a tip from the museum, police raided John's house and found it furnished with some 2,000 objets d'art pilfered over the past 24 years. John did his last-ditch best to save some of the pieces by stuffing them into a vacuum cleaner or hiding them in a toilet tank, but it did no good: in fact, by this last-minute greediness some valuable items were ruined. The police hauled the rest of the lovely things back to the museum and turned John and Mary over to a magistrate...
Profitable Hours. The fact was that the policy was doomed from the start because it was made in a vacuum of unreality. It ran contrary to the basic policy of Britain's major ally, the U.S. (although U.S. policy fluttered indecisively under the impact of Eden's rebuff). Its premise was that the situation in IndoChina was an old-fashioned military stalemate, and that it was possible to negotiate with the Communists, even though, in this case, it was negotiation from weakness. Eden talked of not "prejudicing" the negotiations by hasty action, while the more realistic Communists prejudiced...
...Sided Respite. Into the vacuum left by the collapse of the U.S.'s hastily laid plans stepped Britain's Anthony Eden. To the Communists' charge that Russia and China are the sole champions of Asian nationalist aspirations, Eden pointed out that since the war, India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon have all achieved independence from Britain. "Therefore I resent and reject the suggestion that we ignore or oppose the tide of national feeling in Asia, and I ask: Where is there real national freedom-in Colombo or in Ulan Bator [capital of Outer Mongolia], in Delhi...