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...junkyards to reduce dead jalopies to manageable cubes of crushed metal for shipment to steel mills to be melted down. Victims are taken for a ride in the good old-fashioned way. The car is then driven to a cooperating junkyard with the cadaver in its baggage compartment. A crane lifts the car into the steel-lined pit of the hydraulic press, where it takes just 90 seconds to reduce a 1962 Cadillac to a cube 36 in. high, 24 in. long and 24 in. wide. The result is then cleaned, coated with a metal preservative, and shipped...
...commission also announced recently that its program of television courses offered for crews of the Polaris fleet will continue with the eighth presentation of "The Anatomy of Revolution" by Crane Brinton...
...Wall Street. The most popular verdict was that the market was "testing" its May 14 low point. If it broke through that low, the analysts solemnly explained, it would go still lower; if it did not, it would probably go higher. "This," gibed New York Times Financial Reporter Burton Crane, "is a somewhat complicated way of saying 'I don't know...
...their spirits by writing letters to Adlai Stevenson, or by shocking the sensibilities of stuffy sons who want them to come and live in Darien. Novelist Stone believes firmly in the outlandishness of the usual. An eagle grounds itself in disgust after colliding with a construction workers' crane, and the locals try to fly the bird on a leash. The "X-er"-the man whose job it is to paint big Xs on the windows of condemned buildings-feels himself the personification of doom, gets so worked up over X-ing out so many Fifth Avenue mansions and pleasant...
With Danish. Last week carvers were at work on the cathedral's south transept, shaping the massive (½ ton to 4½ tons) keystones in the centers of the vaults, 100 ft. above the floor. A versatile Danish crane that does its work, then takes itself apart and climbs back down to earth, was lifting two-ton blocks of Indiana limestone up into the reaches of the cathedral's turreted Gloria in Excelsis tower. When completed two years from now, the 300-ft. tower will soar over Washington, surpassing in height (because of its hilltop location...