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...Deadly Bore...
...music that poured from radio and television loudspeakers at week's end, as Arturo Toscanini began his 14th NBC season, bore little trace of the loneliness he feels. As ever, once on the podium, he was concerned only with the feelings Brahms put into his Symphony No. 1 and Weber into his Euryanthe Overture. At 84, Toscanini projected those feelings with a power, clarity and precision no other living conductor can match...
...cold comfort. Late that night, the headquarters in Transport House bore the unmistakable signs of defeat. Ticker tape littered the floor. Torn scribble sheets covered with outdated calculations were piled on desks. Campaign posters as anachronistic as Christmas cards in July hung sheepishly on the walls. A few party workers popped out fora beer, but most just slumped, sucking stale cigarettes over milky cups...
Pots & Pans. Such machines take months to design, months more to make. Because of their special uses, they cannot be mass-produced. Even such standard products as milling machines (see cut), which bore, grind and shave metal, are virtually handmade. Cincinnati Milling turns out only ten or twelve a week. Tool builders are beset by shortages of such components as bearings, valves and clutches. Said one New England toolman: "You hate to see a machine standing there, all completed except for a lousy little electric starter. You not only can't deliver it to the man who needs...
...result the game bore little relation to orthodox soccer. Neither team could move the ball quickly, and the play tended to stick in the zone it was in because nobody could kick it out. The ball had to be dribbled up the field, and never bounced off the spongy turf at all but sank in, instead. Whenever the ball hit a puddle it would stop, though the player could not. He would overrun it and lose control with a resulting scramble in the puddle...