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There is also the matter of tracing wayward luggage and sometimes replacing lost tickets. There was the case of two travelers, for instance, who had to get new tickets midway through a business trip. They had stopped to enjoy some duck hunting, got caught in a downpour and their tickets had disintegrated. Another traveler sheepishly explained why he needed another set of tickets: he had left the first set in his shirt pocket, tossed the shirt into the washing machine...
...weighing is done in a complicated apparatus whose essential part is a tiny glass tube closed at one end and trapping a bubble of air. When this "Cartesian diver" is properly weighted, it floats midway in a column of water, and slight changes in water pressure can make it sink or rise by compressing its bubble...
Total production in the first quarter was at an annual rate of $357.8 billion, down only 1.5% from a year ago. Said a top Commerce Department official: "Gross national product is midway between the alltime record . . . in 1953 and the . . . total for 1952. I can't see how anyone can say we are even in a serious recession . . . when output is between . . . a very good year and an alltime high...
...familiar with the sharply angled turns where a miscue can send car and driver hurtling into trees. He knows the delicate little jog at Maison Blanche, almost midway in the long (2.7 mile) northwest straightaway-where the drivers are at flat-out top speed and where British-born Driver Tommy Cole spun out and was killed last year. "I was following right behind him," said Cunningham. "I saw a yellow flag and jammed on the brakes, and saw him lying on the road and his car rammed up against the gully. You have to concentrate like the devil...
...Mallon (Steve Cochran), a pitchman for a U.S. carnival touring West Germany, catches a fraulein named Willie (Anne Baxter) picking his pocket and hustles her off the midway. He kisses her. "I've been kissed before," Willie moans with pleasure when he lets her go, "but never-uhhhhh!" Willie "tries to resist" -being, as the synopsis explains, "an attractive and intelligent girl who is simply down on her luck in the ruins of postwar Germany." But Joe "arouses her beyond her powers of resistance . . . and like so many others before her," she is carried off to the conqueror...