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...After he got into the N.A.A.C.P., he was ousted as a junior high-school principal and sent to a tiny three-teacher elementary school. But he was not fired. He prospered over the years, was able to buy a neat six-room house and a six-acre orange and grapefruit grove at Mims (pop. 1,081), an Indian. River fruit-packing town 45 miles from Daytona Beach...
MacLennan and Glendinning took a container about as big as a grapefruit, filled it with fire-extinguishing fluid (carbon tetrachloride) and placed a small explosive charge inside. This "bomb" and a small pressure-sensitive switch to set it off were put in a fuel tank. Then the tank's dangerous vapors were ignited by an electric spark. In the first split second, the expanding pressure wave tripped the switch. The "bomb" burst, sprayed its contents into the tank and snuffed out the newborn explosion...
...Long Way Home. In Miami, a runaway bulldozer plowed driverless across a block-long field, downed five trees and smashed 20 feet of wire fence at Carl Gulbrandsen's home; smashed 15 yards of fence, ripped up 30 feet of water pipe, downed five clothesline poles and several grapefruit and apples trees at Mrs. Goldie Spur's home; crashed through Frank Nowell's chicken house before coming to a halt in his garage...
Next morning, the President downed a breakfast of grapefruit, a four-minute egg, toast & coffee, put on two shirts (wool over cotton) and, despite chilly weather, hiked along the Key West sea wall before the town was awake. The drizzle ruled out his swim at Truman Beach, but he spent the morning indoors beside the phonograph, listening to Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, Chopin's Polonaise and Brahms's Symphony...
...from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The party, celebrating the departure of a University of Texas coed who had flunked out, had begun in midafternoon some three hours earlier. In one corner, four tipsily serious coeds tried to revive a passed-out couple with more salty dog (a mixture of gin, grapefruit juice and salt). About 10 p.m., a brunette bounded on to the coffee table, in a limited striptease. At 2 a.m., when the party broke up, one carload of youngsters decided to take off on a two-day drive into Mexico (they got there all right, and sent back picture...