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...Great Billion Dollar Mail Case, which brought Edward R. Murrow back to a new season of See It Now on CBS this week. Cameras behind the scenes of Manhattan's main post office caught the overwhelming frustration of an archaic system, dispirited employees and a staggering, endless load of work. They also recorded pent-up grievances of clerks, letter carriers and their boss, Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield, presented the contrast of smooth modernity in the mails of Switzerland and The Netherlands and such private U.S. businesses as United Parcel Service, explored the problems of whether...
...Marcel Leopold low: a hollow dart, built along the lines of a two-stage rocket, which was shot from a blowpipe to strike the murdered man's flesh, and then released a sharply pointed lead bullet from its tip to penetrate his vitals. Had it also carried a load of deadly poison on its point? The police were not quite sure. Neither did they have an idea of who might have fired it. "All we know," said one official spokesman, "is that this doesn't look like a murder committed by a European...
...with those big, ugly feet." To distract attention from her unfortunate condition, the woman dyed her hair an eye-catching green. Thenceforth, she was gay, carefree. Everybody noticed her green hair. They whispered about her, as she passed: "Look at that gal with the green hair. And get a load of those feet...
...grave problem for such cities as New York, Chicago, Kansas City, San Francisco. Urban redevelopment programs are in danger of collapsing unless better middle-income housing is developed. City planners realize that they cannot go on building low-income projects, which do not carry their part of the tax load, without balancing them with middle-income accommodations, which do. One reason for the flight to the suburbs-with its attrition of city revenues and business-is that families find it easier, once they have a down payment, to pay for a house than for a high-priced city apartment...
...philosophical means of testing the cowardice of his countrymen and the wits of his enemies. After slipping their burden past one more peril, Gabin roars with immense self-appreciation: "This pig's making a genius out of me!" He unsuccessfully tries to persuade Bourvil to hijack their load and be a black-marketeer himself, instead of a mere hauler. Says Gabin: "Then you will be forced to become a boss. See where dishonesty can lead?" Gabin continues to enjoy his larks even after a German patrol catches them in a no-porking zone. But Bourvil, marooned in the smallness...