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Frying Pans & Slip Covers. Alpha particles had been sucked into the hot air heating system, so the whole house was suspect. But the bulky portable counter, which can only operate close to the source of radiation, couldn't fit into every corner. Taking no chances, the decontamination crew followed a simple rule: if it can't be checked, chuck it out. The whole furnace was ripped out and destroyed. Any articles that could easily be replaced were also discarded. Frying pans, slip covers, clothes, all went to the dump, to be replaced at Government expense...
...hearty hug in the privacy of the plane, they had to settle for a more dignified picture of royalty. At his first press conference in Paris, Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson began: "I have come to talk things over with General MacArthur . . ." gulped, then corrected his tongue-slip, "... I mean with General Eisenhower...
Saved from a medical slip, Dr. Huebner and colleagues rewrote this report for publication in the A.M.A. Journal (March 3). Instead of telling about a "new" child's disease, they reported the rediscovery of Herpangina...
Britain's butchers carve the tiny weekly meat ration with surgeonlike skill; a slip of a fraction of an inch, and the legal eightpennyworth is exceeded. The Ministry of Food sometimes tests these craftsmen, and last week its testing methods came under fire...
...doing so, however, the classical players tend occasionally to slip into some pretty low slapstick, For example a slave shows he is annoyed at his master by blowing his nose in his hand and snapping his wrist towards...