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Died. George A. Ball, 92, financier, philanthropist, last of five brothers, who built one of the great U.S. fortunes on the Mason jar and the purchase in 1935 of controlling stock in the Van Sweringen railroad empire (23,000 miles, including the Chesapeake & Ohio and Missouri Pacific) for "about the price of two first-class locomotives," which he sold for $6,375,000 in 1937 to a group headed by the New York Central's Robert Young; in Muncie...
...scarcely twitched. The stock market ducked for a day, then bobbed up. Elsewhere, the momentum of U.S. life carried on without a jar. The Ford Motor Co. created no surprise whatever by announcing a half-billion-dollar expansion program in 1956. Aside from their interest in the bulletins from Denver, the U.S. people concentrated on the World Series, the annual climax of the most highly organized and statistics-adorned game that men have ever played...
...thorn their marriage. In flashbacks, the wife is shown mothering and dominating docile Jim. When his theatrical career crumbles for want of ever more inner props, Jim tries, in despair, to attach himself to another woman (Joy Page). But her reluctance to play Mom finally drives him to a jar of sleeping pills...
Airtight Cap. An airtight container cap that hermetically reseals a glass jar when the lid is pressed on has been put on sale by the Owens-Illinois Glass Co. Originally developed for baby-food packers, the Vapak lid prevents discoloration of food. It will be sold in a variety of sizes for food and drug items...
...Saigon, Premier Ngo Dinh Diem, solemn and immaculate in a white sharkskin suit, sat on a canopied dais before representatives of 600,000 mountain tribesmen. Huge brass gongs sounded out a tribal chant. Tribesmen, some wearing only loincloths, others rigged out in bright robes and peacock feathers placed ceremonial jars of wine from each mountain village before him. Through long, curved bamboo stems, Diem took a ceremonial draught from each jar. Then village elders slipped three large gold bracelets on Diem's arm, spread the head and entrails of two sacrificed water buffaloes before him, and pledged their allegiance...