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...rubber goods. When it had trundled three-fourths of a mile along the echoing, white-tiled, two-mile tube, one of the drums mysteriously exploded. Glaring gouts of flame and clouds of choking yellow fumes burst from the trailer; the driver took one horrified look in his rear-vision mirror, jumped out, ran and leaped on a truck passing in the other lane...
...comic strip has ever scored a solid hit in Britain. But when the lid was taken off newsprint last winter, the London Sunday Pictorial jumped to sign up Al Capp's Li'l Abner. Editor Harry Guy Bartholomew, whose knowing tabloid touch had built the London Daily Mirror (circ. 4,400,000) into the world's biggest daily, thought that his even bigger weekend Pictorial audience (4,800,000) would eat up Capp's super-edible Shmoos as hungrily as U.S. readers had done...
...typewriter, after working for an hour, he got the old terrifying constriction in his chest and the pain in his left arm. He called to his wife Eva, who brought him a glass of brandy and promised to call the doctor. After a second drink she handed him a mirror, showed him that his lips were not blue, as they had been in his original attack. Then Mrs. Harrison, a schoolteacher who has learned practical psychology by handling 4-B children, confessed that she had only pretended to call the doctor. Harrison now recognizes his own neurotic symptoms...
Bales incarcerates his subjects in a specially rigged conference room and tells them to conduct a meeting. But unknown to them, Bales and his minions are spying on them through a one-way mirror covering one wall...
...moving paper ribbon, a one-way mirror, and hidden microphone figure in a new Social Relations scheme for finding out how people get along with each other...