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Junior Carl Belz, an All-Ivy Leaguer last year, is probably Princeton's best shot. A six-foot four-inch forward, Belz has been sidelined with an ankle injury lately and is a doubtful starter for tonight's game. If he goes not play, twin brother Herman, an excellent rebounder but less dangerous shotmaker, will start in his place...

Author: By Mark L. Krupnick, | Title: Varsity Five Seeks Second Place Berth In League Contests | 2/21/1958 | See Source »

Cover Girl. In Aztec, N. Mex., Sheriff Dan Sullivan missed two prisoners, peeked behind a big pinup picture in their cell, found a 10-by-14-in. hole cut into the quarter-inch steel wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 10, 1958 | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...conference, why not put the knife back and ask the town's newsmen to cooperate in a ruse? Springfield's two TV stations, two newspapers and four radio stations agreed to go along, arid next day all of them announced: "Springfield's police will begin an inch-by-inch search of the murder scene at 2 p.m. tomorrow, looking for the murder weapon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Electronic Lure | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

LITTLE-BIG INCH PIPELINE will start carrying oil instead of natural gas from Gulf Coast to East. FPC examiner approved bid by Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. for conversion after Texas Eastern agreed to compromise terms laid down by competing barge operators, who have been fighting switch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jan. 20, 1958 | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...tricky problem of getting a hypo needle full of the stuff in the stern of an edgy steer was solved by a .50-cal. carbondioxide-powered rifle remodeled to fire a needle-nosed cartridge containing the tranquilizer. Accurate up to 50 yds., the needle whumps about an inch into the steer's rump and carbon-dioxide gas forces happiness into the beast. Cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Soothed Steer | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

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