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...cover for comfort in the early-morning chill. An airstrip was constructed; access roads from Katmandu, 160 miles away, were widened and improved. In high grass four miles from camp, workmen set up a "hunting ring," surrounded by a 5-ft. fence of white cloth and stocked with a smallish 8-ft. 8-in. tigress flushed from the jungle the day before...
...Jerry cartoon. Best line belongs to Sellers. "Four years we've been gaoin' together," his girl (Liz Frazer) in forms him indignantly, "an' what've oi got to shaow fer it? Nothin'!" Replies Sellers with a smallish smirk: "You've been lucky...
...smallish, owlish man, Goldberg is as alert as a chipmunk, packs an astonishing amount of stamina and energy (in the thick of marathon negotiations, he switches from Sanka to coffee). Although his manner is amiable, he is as tough as whip leather at the bargaining table...
...that those with higher energy must come from somewhere else. The late Enrico Fermi thought they came from interstellar magnetic fields which gradually speed up protons and other charged particles moving between the stars of the Milky Way galaxy (the earth itself is a smallish satellite to one of the smaller stars in this galaxy). But this theory could not account for rays whose energy is above a critical limit. The galaxy's overall magnetic field can make fairly powerful rays curve enough to stay inside it, but if the rays acquire more than about 1018 (11billion billion) electron...
...improve its profits, Studebaker-Packard Corp. has long talked of diversifying out of car making. But in the last four years under President Harold Churchill, it has taken on only three smallish companies. The pace was so slow that much of the company's huge accumulated tax losses of $121 million, which can be carried over for only five years to offset profits, seemed likely to expire before they could be used up. Last week. as it brought out its 1961 models, the corporation also picked a new top man to speed up its diversification program. In as chairman...