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Rolling the Barrel. Art Tokle himself tottered onto skis at the age of 18 months, took his first jump at such a tender age that he does not remember it, and won his first meet at seven with a leap of over 60 ft. During the war, the Germans interrupted his career by putting him into the copper mines for 4½ years of forced labor. In 1947 Tokle came to the U.S. and promptly began winning meets. Twice national champion (1951, 1953), Tokle was still good enough three years ago to finish a respectable fourth, jumping against some...
Failure of Faith. Dr. Fisher has been one of the least pompous of prelates-after a minor operation in 1939, he played Pack Up Your Troubles and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes on a barrel organ in Chester Market Square to raise funds for the hospital in which he had been treated. He has also been one of the least consistent. He has been more conservative than British public opinion on such issues as racial segregation ("This is not the sort of thing we should get excited and fanatical about") and divorce ("Adultery is becoming such a menace that...
...that Raditzer gets his comeuppance. He brags about combat duty that he never saw, swaggers through the transport with a fat roll that he has picked up running a joint in Hawaii. But this time the Pendleton is carrying combat veterans as well as the scraped-barrel group of the outward voyage. When Raditzer is caught cheating in a below-decks poker game, they decide to pitch him overboard. In a scene that is brutal and powerfully true, Charlie Stark as his protector is tried as Raditzer has not tried him before. And from there to the powerful ending, Stark...
...Speaker's Room to object: "A dangerous precedent!"* Cannon, a powerful, conservative man, brought welcome support to the Smith-Colmer forces: as chairman of the Appropriations Committee, he holds over each member the dreadful threat of excluding this or that congressional district from federal pork-barrel projects. Sitting quietly on an equally big pork barrel was another Judge Smith ally, Georgia's Carl Vinson, chairman of the Armed Services Committee...
...earth's atmosphere. He sees little future for manned space exploration in Project Mercury, which uses a ballistic missile, which is shot like a bullet, has no wings and not much control after it is fired. "That's sort of like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel," says Draper. "You don't expect to find many people making a career of it." Draper's Instrumentation Lab has also designed on paper an unmanned payload to circle Mars and return to earth with photographs or other observations. "All that remains is to do it," says Draper...