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Thermostat. In West Bend, Wis., angered by the breakdown of his heating system, Henry Schroeder wrecked it with a hammer, shattered four living room windows, when his wife called police, floored the assistant police chief, after an hour's struggle wound up in jail...
...test driver for South Bend's Studebaker Corp., Elmer Kovach spent his working days putting Studebakers through their paces. But in his off hours, Kovach preferred to drive a 1953 Oldsmobile. This preference soon got Kovach in trouble with fellow members of the United Auto Workers' (C.I.O.) Local 5 in the plant. One day last summer, two union stewards dropped by with a little advice. It might be a good idea, they said, to trade his Olds in on a Studebaker; the union had decided workers should drive nothing but Studebakers, since it was a matter of jobs...
...Petrus. Then, with members of a Catholic Action youth group, he recited the prayer he wrote for the Marian Year: "Enraptured by the splendor of your heavenly beauty, and impelled by the anxieties of the world, we cast ourselves into your arms, O Immaculate Mother of Jesus . . . Bend tenderly over our aching wounds. Convert the wicked, dry the tears of the afflicted and oppressed, comfort the poor and humble, quench hatreds, sweeten harshness, safeguard the flower of purity in youth, protect the Holy Church, make all men feel the attraction of Christian goodness...
Down Payment. In South Bend, Ind., Restaurateur Jack Chambers told police that he had not interfered when a woman took $19 from the pockets of dozing Customer Joseph King, because she had an explanation: "He's my husband . . . I'm going to take him home...
...good as the moderns', and in some ways perhaps better. For the future, he foresaw wider use of the tourniquet bandage, which had given him an almost bloodless field of operation. And he thinks another pre-Inca wrinkle may prove useful: flexible bronze needles, which the surgeon can bend when putting in stitches...