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...comet collision would be a cream-puff blow compared with an encounter between the earth and an asteroid. These small bodies, believed to be pieces of a planet once located between Mars and Jupiter, have highly eccentric orbits and often shoot close to the earth. In 1937 a small asteroid, Hermes, missed the earth by only 500,000 miles - a bare stone's throw as interplanetary space is reckoned...
...seem silly to take the trouble to find out what the Zulu word for "home" is (we haven't found it yet); what the late President Calvin Coolidge's "cure" for seasickness was (if he had one); who "actually" was the first person to make ice cream (the evidence is inconclusive); how German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel had his flat feet fixed (he didn't). But the temptation to try to find the correct answer is irresistible-and the result goes into TIME'S morgue for the future use, or edification, of TIME'S editors...
...beach was a low, thick-walled building-newly painted a bright yellow, bordered with flower boxes and surmounted by an elegant sign, A la Marquise de Sėvigné (after a famous chain of Paris teashops). Few of the English and French children who bought candy and ice cream there on Bastille Day knew that the building had been a Nazi pillbox...
Mozart & Chamois. Most of the 15,000 U.S. occupation troops in Austria were boys between 18 and 22. Weaned on ice cream sodas, they had known little except the good life of high-school dances and corner drugstores. The U.S. Army helped to transplant much of that life to Austria. It set up replicas of U.S. drugstores where G.I.s could take their Austrian girls for a soda (daily ice-cream consumption of the U.S. Army & friends in Vienna now runs to 60,000 scoops...
...have been reported since Tuesday: Liggett's frappes, up to $.25 milkshakes, up to $.20 Mike's Club frappes, up to $.20 Bella Vista Restaurant spaghetti dinner, from $1 to $1.10 (Similar increases on other items) Hazen's grilled cheese sandwich, $.15 to $.20 College Drug Store all ice cream items...