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Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser made a chilling discovery 30 minutes before he was scheduled to pilot one of his speedboats in the Lake Tahoe Gold Cup race. Someone had sawed half through the two-inch propeller shaft of one of his Gold Cup racers, and had stuffed nuts, bolts and rags into the carburetor and blower. Another had been thoroughly doused with gasoline. It was, said Kaiser, "an attempt at plain, cold murder." But he climbed into a third boat in his fleet, buzzed off to a second place behind Shipping Heir Stanley Dollar...
...suburban Chicago last week, heavy rains drove black swarms of crickets from field and garden. Millions of the inch-long insects oozed over the streets and hopped into homes and office buildings. Restaurants closed in the face of the invasion; a few all-night filling stations kept their driveways clear by flushing the insects down the sewer with hoses...
...through Meriden, Conn, one day last year, Junk Dealer Chester Orsini, 29, stopped by to do business at the home of Barber John Cantarini, who was just moving out of his house. Orsini plunked down $10 for a heap of rags and old mattresses; then he noticed a 14-inch bronze bust of Lincoln sitting on the family trash heap. Orsini took a fancy to it, bought it for $2 and took it home to decorate his television set. But when he noticed the name stamped on the back, he showed it to a local dentist who had bought some...
...whole star to bits. It would glory briefly as a supernova, shining more brightly than all the stars in the sky. But when the excitement was over, the only thing left would be a "neutron-star": a ball of peculiar matter made largely or entirely of neutrons. A cubic inch of this strange stuff would weigh 18 million tons, and a mass the size of the sun could be packed into a sphere less than 100 miles in diameter...
...although it subsequently withdrew the offer without any explanation. Other members of the industry's Big Six, such as Republic Steel's Charlie White and Jones & Laughlin's Ben Moreell, insisted that the union shop is the only issue and that they will not yield an inch on it. "We see no possible area of compromise," White wired the White House. ". . . This issue is going to be a long drawn out one." Said Moreell: "Our company believes in unions . . . that unions can and do render useful service. [But] we believe that each man and woman should...