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...Prime Minister made only two public appearances. The Quebec Bar Association gave him a dinner; he went to the Liberal Reform Club to hand out gifts to 45 orphans. This week, there would be a family farewell party, for which Madame St. Laurent would fix a 29-lb. turkey. Then Grand-Père St. Laurent would head back to Ottawa...
Albert Einstein, 69, checked into a Brooklyn hospital for an operation to fix up a "longstanding abdominal condition." After an hour on the table, he came out in "satisfactory" condition...
...decided 6 to 1 that it had no jurisdiction to review the verdict. The Japanese-and many Americans-were somewhat bewildered by these final hesitations. There were to be no more. The seven understood that; they waited in Tokyo's quiet Sugamo prison for General Douglas MacArthur to fix the date of execution...
Wrong Decision? U.S. Rubber Co., which had just been fined $5,000 for conspiring to fix prices at home (TIME, Nov. 1), was in trouble again for its doings in the international market. Attorney General Tom Clark filed an antitrust suit against U.S. Rubber, its British subsidiary, Consolidated Rubber Manufacturers Ltd., and British Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd. The charge: that the three companies had divided up the world rubber market, and prevented the unlimited flow of rubber products into...
...coded signal. When this reaches the omnirange, a repeater answers like an echo. An automatic device on the plane measures the time between the signal and the echo. It turns this interval into the distance in miles and "displays" it on a dial. This gives the pilot a perfect "fix." He knows his direction and distance from the omnirange. Therefore he knows exactly where he is, though there may be three miles of clouds between him and the earth...