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...night while his roommates slept, he sneaked out of school and made his way, on foot and by paddle steamer, to Cairo, 1000 miles away. His destination: the Royal Military Academy, Egypt's West Point. The Admissions Tribunal was impressed by his terrierlike energy, but Naguib fell an inch short of the required minimum height. Back home he performed stretching exercises after prayers, five times a day for a year. He succeeded in adding a half inch to his stature, but that still wasn't enough (Naguib still stands half an inch short of the required...
...rich; to millions, it is almost a way of life, prompted by insecurity, hopelessness, and fear of what tomorrow may bring-or take away. To sweep out corruption, as he has promised, Naguib will have to break the stubborn power of the landowning pashas, who are fighting him every inch of the way; he will also have to rebuild Egyptian society from the bottom up. The question is whether he has the skill to do it-or the time...
Last week the Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. of Rochester, N.Y. shipped to the Los Alamos atomic laboratory the most ambitious grating that has been completed so far. It has 211,000 lines crowded into a space only seven inches long-more than 30,000 to the inch. A single human hair covers 90 of the lines. Bigger gratings have been ruled, but never one of this size with so many lines per inch. Price...
Road Repairs. In Niles, Calif., when Harry Short was arrested for burglarizing a tavern, he explained why he was carrying a twelve-inch claw bar, a ten-inch screwdriver, a hack saw and six blades, and a three-cornered file: he had a wooden leg and needed all those things to keep it in walking order...
...from the day they started. Neither had ever done much preaching, but both had been thinking hard about it. And they were sure that their audiences would not forget them easily: George, 40, weighs 240 Ibs. and stands 6 ft. 4½ in.; Lawrence, five years younger, is an inch taller and weighs...