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...that is not inspiration enough, girl watchers can contemplate the fact that the beauty pageants are growing bigger, if not better, in more ways than one. Back in 1921, the bust measurement of Margaret Gorman, the first Miss America, was 30 inches. That's one inch less than Twiggy's and 61 less than the current titleholder...
...headlined a London Sun editorial. "Violence has become the brutal hallmark of the most prosperous and most powerful nation on earth." Added Britain's Lord Harlech, a longtime friend of Kennedy: "Violence in the U.S. has become a world scandal." France, which came within an inch of violent collapse last month, found time in its recovery to fret over U.S. government: "America dreamed of a government of judges," said Paris' Le Monde, "but it suffers the law of violent people." Said Combat of Paris: "America is mad." The Times of India, where politically inspired mob action...
When the roof of a Fort Worth building began to cave in beneath his feet, the first thing Building Wrecker Walter J. Piper did was to throw away his crow bar. The act came within a quarter of an inch of taking his life. Sliding down a beam as the roof fell, Piper, 69, plummeted onto the 5-ft.-long, l-in.-thick tool, which had lodged point up in a pile of debris. The crowbar rammed through Piper's scrotum, smashed his pelvis, punctured his intestines, stomach, diaphragm and a lung before stopping within a quarter...
...notorious source of housing-cost inflation is local building codes, which often outlaw new materials and methods. Factory-assembled plumbing can save builders $200 per house, but hundreds of localities forbid it. Around Chicago, builders generally must string electric wiring inside half-inch metal pipes instead of nonmetallic sheathed cable. The extra cost: $150 per house. Pittsburgh's Ryan Homes sells a three-bedroom house for $19,300 in one suburb, but is forced to charge $3,000 more for an almost identical model a few miles away...
...series of chambers from which pumps are continuously evacuating the air. By simply blowing a steady stream of inert gas past the final hole-the muzzle of the gun - he stops dirt and debris from being sucked back into the vacuum. No wider than a sixteenth of an inch, the electron beam, says Schumacher, can cut iron bars, granite blocks or slabs of concrete. Only requirement is that the gun be kept virtually on top of its target. From a half inch out, it can burrow up to four inches into the toughest stone in less than a minute...