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...dime from her husband since October. Rockefeller's lawyer promptly waved a $2,500 check, endorsed by Bobo, which he said she accepted as a "Christmas gift" to Winthrop Jr., 5, in December. Replied Bobo: even now, a cruel Man hattan merchant was trying to repossess her $100 vacuum cleaner. At week's end hostilities cooled as abruptly as they had flared up. The settlement, to which Bobo agreed "in principle," was handsome-and had plenty of principal: for Bobo, $2,000,000 cash, a $1,000,000 trust fund, plus either $70,000-a-year alimony...
...over twice for a promotion is normally scheduled to retire. He can be kept on as a special case or put to work as a retired officer, but his prestige is gone. He has suffered a vote of no confidence. Happily, the U.S. Navy does not exist in a vacuum. At news of the rejection of Rickover, both press and Congress protested the decision of the board. At last, Navy Secretary Robert Anderson and the White House took a hand...
SINCLAIR OIL, along with Carter Oil and Socony-Vacuum, has just brought in the first well in what may be a rich new oilfield in the Williston Basin 100 miles northwest of Bismarck...
...over 46,000 miles of new roads worth $3 billion. They put their feet into 500 million pairs of new shoes, walked into 1,100,000 new houses and apartments, spent a record of $34.7 billion on construction of all types. Housewives cleaned their homes with more new vacuum cleaners (3,000,000) than in 1952, and washed their clothes with more new washing machines (3,700,000); to do the job, they bought a record $400 million worth of soap and detergents. They sat down before more new TV sets...
Pocket Radio. RCA demonstrated a tiny (2 in. by 4 in.) radio receiver, in which transistors do the work of vacuum tubes and a pencil flashlight battery supplies the power. Sound volume is great enough to be heard in a good-sized room...