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From Austria, only a massive range of mountains and a four-dollar visa (easily obtainable) separate the American citizen from Yugoslavia. Near the frontier, the Loiblpass rises like an angry snake, symbolic of Tito's political machinations over the last eight years; but on the other side, Slovenia, one of the seven federated states, stretches into a timid plain...
...confusion about the "apple" with which the snake tempted Eve, and Eve caused the downfall of Adam, is not the fault of the Bible or its translators. Genesis does not name the guilty fruit at all; it is merely "the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil." It was turned into an apple by imaginative European artists who needed a fruit-bearing tree to put in their pictures...
...drawings themselves, broad, often wildly exaggerated cartoons by Britain's best$#151;Emett, Anton, Sprod, Francois, ffolkes-with only a helpful nudge or two from the captions. And most of the characters are the kind Americans can understand: taxi drivers, sidewalk hawkers, boy geniuses, women in telephone booths, snake charmers, acrobats, psychoanalysts, woolly dogs, fancy new cars and rickety old ones...
...build the first crude-oil pipeline between the west Texas oilfields and the oil-hungry West Coast. The line, to be built by Glasco's West Coast Pipeline Co., will cost $87 million, be as big as the Big Inch (24 in.). Starting from Wink, Texas, it will snake through 953 miles of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California, terminating at Norwalk, near Los Angeles. It will be able to carry an initial load of 180,000 bbls. of crude a day when it is completed in the fall of 1953. As a "common-carrier," it will transport...
...real Tom Sawyer was very like the real Mark Twain, a redheaded little river rascal named Sam Clemens, with a gleam in his eye and a snake in his pocket, who lived in the drowsy Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Mo. in the 1840s. In Sam Clemens of Hannibal, the story of Sam's Great American Boyhood is told for the first time in full detail by the late Dixon Wecter, editor of the still unpublished* Mark Twain Papers...