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...years ago. Happy for Pauline, too. Berney told the fascinated Miss Goebel that he was a manufacturer of TV antennas, and was about to embark upon the production of a revolutionary device called the "Modulator." Wide-eyed, Pauline listened to Harold's story-and a real whopper it was. Harold had been in touch with officials of the planet Venus. Matter of fact, he had visited Venus in a flying saucer. And after two wonderful visits with his Venutian hosts, he had won the honor of presiding over the earthly development of the Modulator, which could collect energy-much...
...recognition was long overdue. Catini, little known in the U.S., is a whopper of a corporation by any standard. It is Italy's No. 2 corporation (after Fiat), and one of the world's top ten chemical firms. It has 60.000 employees. 167 plants and mines, 60 subsidiaries. 200,000 stockholders, assets of more than $600 million. From the Alps to Sicily, it straddles Italy's economy, producing 57% of the .country's aluminum (35,000 tons), 89% of its pyrites (1,200,000 tons), 80% of its bauxite, 64% of its phosphates, the majority...
...limit himself on his job. Now he asserts that he has for some weeks been fulfilling all the duties of the Presidency. The fact is that he has not. If he had, there would not have been the fiasco about the tanks for Saudi Arabia, nor the Dulles whopper about the Russian defeat and retreat all over the world, nor the deep silence about the mounting race crisis in the South, nor the complete absence of an American policy on Israel and the Middle East. If this is a test of working at full capacity, then God help America...
...swapping stories about who got fired from the Voice of America because he subscribed to the Nation, and how So-and-So was not rehired at Benton College because his wife' had once joined the League of Women Shoppers-each capping the other's whopper of the reactionary menace. What is the consequence? A stiffening of spines? A clearing of the mind and will for action? I doubt it ... Intellectuals who . . . choose to regard themselves as being victimized, contribute to the very pressures they deplore. These pressures are not nearly so strong as alleged : thinking them strong helps...
Gentlemen & Sluts. East of Eden is a 250,000-word whopper that slowly spreads from the Civil War to World War I. In form it is a two-family saga (with a double Cain & Abel theme) in which the family destinies brush each other so slightly as to make East of Eden two novels between the same set of boards. Adam Trask, the hero of one of the novels, was born in Connecticut in 1862. He did not reach California and meet the Hamiltons (Steinbeck's folks) until 1900, but he already had quite a story...