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Ellen holes up like a recluse with the infernal machine, gradually realizes that Mikki is a modern vampire sucking the life out of all human relationships. In an unintentionally funny kiss-off scene, she turns to the monster-marvel and says softly: "I don't like your soul..." Then, hauling out a heavy automatic, she riddles Mikki beyond repair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Infernal Machine | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

...monster electronic clock, the last word in precision timers, went into operation last week at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J. The secret of the new clock's accuracy is a set of four quartz crystals, about the size of matchbooks, which vibrate in controlled temperature vacuum chambers at 100,000 cycles per second. Their function: to control the pulses of current which drive the mechanism. Working together with 600 electron tubes, the crystals operate with a margin for error of about one part in a billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Clock to End Clocks | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

Close to 1,000 businessmen from around the world will congregate across the river Saturday to hold a monster convention on business problems in Europe, Asia, and Latin America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business School Draws 900 Delegates Saturday | 6/5/1951 | See Source »

Jesus Salas Barrazas was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. After serving a month, he was freed and joined the army. Last week, a retired colonel at 63, Barrazas suffered a stroke in Mexico City. "I'm not a murderer. I rid humanity of a monster," he mumbled. Then he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Man Who Killed Villa | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

...Pratt & Whitney's biggest, newest jet engine, the J-57, and Pilot Haven was putting it through a flying test. When he landed again at Rentschler field he gave a laconic report: "That monster's got a lot of pizzazz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Mr. Horsepower | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

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