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...Also an admirer of the serpentine wall was another President, Thomas Jefferson. After seeing "ribbon walls" in England, Jefferson reproduced them at the University of Virginia because they were 1) esthetically pleasing, and 2) structurally stronger than straight walls of the same width...
...spending more for military purposes alone than the Israelis do for all governmental expenses. As the Arabs grow stronger, the temptation to seek another military showdown with Israel may become irresistible. And the densely-populated Israeli coastal strip, between the Mediterranean and the Jordan border, has an average width of less than twenty miles...
...British press attacked it. More serious was the fact that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was deeply disturbed by it and prepared to express his disapproval to Dulles when the two meet this week in Bangkok. British disapproval of this speech discloses more plainly than ever before the width and depth of U.S.British differences on East Asia policy...
While the snare drums sizzled and the crowd gasped, two girls in tights stood on eight-foot pedestals a stage width apart, one with an end of a wire about her neck, the second holding the other end with her teeth. A man mounted the slack wire, stretched himself out flat-backed and flipped himself over and over. The gymnasts were Germany's famed Goltz Trio, making its successful rounds of the U.S. vaudeville circuit 40 years ago. Last week Christel Goltz, the wire walker's 34-year-old daughter, made her U.S. debut as another kind...
Pickup. A lawnmower-like magnetic "sweeper" to pick up metal scraps from factory floors has been developed by Homer Mfg. Co. of Lima, Ohio. Prices: from $124 to $856, depending on width and intensity of magnets...