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Unsafe Deposit. In Muncie, Ind., Supermarket Owner Lester Muster, trying to outwit burglars, kept his money in a wastebasket instead of a drawer, until an employee chucked $10,080 in cash and checks into a fire while cleaning...
...overcame the first obstacle with nine votes (U.S., Britain, France, China, Chile, Denmark, Pakistan, Colombia, Greece), but fell before the second, a Soviet veto (its 56th in the Security Council). The ballots, which are supposed to be secret but aren't, were then ceremoniously burned in a tin wastebasket. One possibility: if the Security Council cannot find anyone acceptable to Russia, it may decide to stick with...
...free and prices are being set free. By last week only 17% of the items on the cost-of-living index were still under control. The tangled mass of red tape which has hobbled civilian industry in procurement of basic materials was being wadded up and thrown in the wastebasket. The Administration, said Dwight Eisenhower, will step back in with controls only if that becomes vitally necessary. Natural economic laws will be given, in the words of Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson, "the darndest whirl" in 20 years...
Francis Olmsted-Grubbs, fresh from Princeton University, got off to a bad start when he began teaching French at the Loomis School in Windsor, Conn. At his very first class, he caught his feet in a wastebasket and fell flat on his face. Later, the boys, with typical irreverence, began calling him "Fog." But as things turned out, Francis Grubbs soon gave the lie to his nickname. Last week, after 22 years on the faculty, he became the school's headmaster...
DeGuglielmo said after the meeting that he did not know for sure what would come of the order. "It will probably end up in the wastebasket," he said...