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Here Today . . . Standard atlases do not even agree on heights of some of the Alpine peaks. Some governments like to pad their population figures; some cities boast a bewildering array of spellings-e.g., Jebeil, Jubeil, Jebail, Jubayl, Jbail Djebail, Djoubeil. In Russia, a city's name is apt to change with the size of its population; in China, it can change with the seasonal movement of a district capital (e.g., Shanmulung officially becomes Lungchwan in the winter; Changfengkai becomes Lungchwan in the summer). Islands present a special problem: the South Pacific's volcanic Fonuafoo, for instance, emerged...
...Boston, a nine-year-old autograph hound said, "Bear down hard, Mr. Senator, I've got lots of friends." Estes Kefauver followed orders on a pad which had 15 sheets of carbon paper...
...neighbors in Brooklyn said that the honest, hard-working, little suit salesman, who had sen Willie Sutton by chance and turned him in as any civic minded citizen would do, seemed to be living beyond his known means. These sidelights were just filler to pad out the hot story of the day. But they were interesting filler...
Yale men need no yonger pad the streets of defenseless, helpless prey to any passing mugger...
Iron-Aid. An ironing pad with an aluminum-foil center that "bounces back the heat" and enables users to iron both sides at once, was put on the market by Boston's Mme. Merkin Co. Price...