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...Manhattan this week, workmen on Gimbels' toy floor were putting the finishing touches on a 30-ft. space ship, outfitted with an "artificial gravity generator," a "viewport" (windshield), "radar bridge" and "teleceiver." As every Space Cadet knows, these marvels enable the pilot to see as well as talk ship-to-ship, ship-to-earth, ship-to-planet. Across the street in Macy's toy department, the normal sales staff was boosted from 200 to 1,000. In Atlanta, Rich's department gave its toy department 15% more space than last year, and put in a special department...
...Ernest Nemeth, ex-Denver University guard, who claimed that he had lost his $26 weekly salary (campus job plus room & board) after a football injury (TIME, Oct. 8). Under the workmen's compensation laws, ruled the state industrial commission referee, Nemeth is entitled to $13 a week from the time of his injury until it no longer keeps him from the job for which he was hired: i.e., playing football...
...Workmen this week began painting a new office for Radcliffe's Student Government Association. The room, on the third floor of Fay House, will be used for Student Council meetings. It will also house S.G.A. files...
...company said that workmen laying a new sidewalk had gone home, leaving flares to mark the area. A nearby manhole had evidently become filled with gas from a leaking pipe. The flares ignited the gas and blew the manhole cover up into the air. In falling back it struck a pressure-regulating mechanism, forcing the regulator arm into the "open" position. This, said the gas company, introduced excessive gas pressure into customers' homes, where the gas was ignited by various means, such as pilot lights on stoves...
...When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: 'It is the trade entering his body.' Each time that we have some pain to go through, we can say to ourselves quite truly that it is the universe, the order, and beauty of the world and the obedience of creation to God that are entering our body. After that how can we fail to bless ... the Love that sends us this gift?" ¶"Of all the beings other than Christ of whom the Gospel tells us, the good thief...