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...boards were full of sketches. U.S. airlines could not afford the immense cost of a new transport estimated as high as $50 million. Both planemakers and airlines looked to Washington for help, but Washington had not made up its mind what to do. Last year, when the planemakers first woke up to Britain's challenge, they had tried to get Congress to pass a "prototype" bill under which the Federal Government would pay for experimental commercial planes. But the bill died in the Senate...
Movers & Shakers. In Rock Falls, Ill., Douglas Unger woke up when his bedroom began rocking, found that workmen were carrying out his orders to move the house down the street...
Surprise. In Cleveland, after Mrs. Frances Weber woke her husband with a shout, "I just had a baby!", Mr. Weber said he knew his wife had gained some weight recently, but "we just thought she needed a little exercise...
...office before the sneeze rate soared again. Hypnotist Norman Waters sent Michael into a deep trance and intoned: "You are not going to sneeze. When I snap my fingers you will wake up and tell your mother, 'I have stopped sneezing.' " Waters snapped his fingers and Michael woke with a violent kerchoo...
Quiet, Please. In Monrovia, Calif., the city council silenced the 9 p.m. curfew whistle after some 20 years, explained that too many residents complained that it woke them...