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Despite the troubles, those willing to spend money on TV coverage think the results are worth it, especially as advertisers snap up TV news shows. The Los Angeles Times's and the Mirror's KTTV has one of the most energetic newspaper-owned TV news setups in the U.S., including fourteen staffers and camera crews. It thinks $5,470 a week for TV news-gathering is well spent. One of its best local stunts: when a three-year-old girl disappeared recently, the station assigned four cameras (TV and newsreel) to the hunt. Three followed the search party...
Kefauver exuded energy, good will and sincerity. His corn came out cornflakes, full of modern, vitaminized pop, crackle and snap. He was a serious fellow, who seemed only to slap backs and ride kids' bicycles because he is warm and human and not stuck up, and likes people. The Democratic professionals in Washington were horrified. Last week, no longer able to pooh-pooh Kefauver as an amateur and an upstart, they were taking serious steps to stop him at any cost...
Last week, in a meaningless practice game with the Cleveland Indians, Irvin, playing all out as usual, slid toward third base. He never got there. His spikes plowed into the dirt, caught and stuck. There was a sickening snap as Irvin's right ankle gave way under the strain of his 200 Ibs. As he lay writhing in pain, his ankle, as if in mockery of all the wasted years and the blasted hopes, stuck out at a grotesque right angle. Outfielder Willie Mays, Irvin's roommate and admiring fan, wept openly at the sight...
What, for instance, happens to a relatively simple compound such as sugar when it is taken into the body in food or drink? What goes wrong with sugar metabolism in the diabetic patient? At what point does the normal metabolic chain snap? Now, at last, biochemists hope to find out. At Manhattan's Memorial Hospital and elsewhere, they have built common sugars such as sucrose and dextrose with one or more atoms of radioactive carbon-14. As the tagged sugar goes through the system and eventually escapes, its progress can be clocked. Doctors already know that there is more...
...plane trip four years ago, a seatmate told John Burton Tigrett about a new toy. It was simply a roll of paper on a stick. With a flick of the wrist the paper coil would shoot five feet into the air and snap back into position. Tigrett, an easygoing Southerner who had long made a hobby of buying up patents, tracked down the inventor, bought his patent for $100 plus royalties, and started producing the gadget in a small Chicago shop. Since then, 38-year-old John Tigrett has sold 15 million "Zoomerangs," and built a $2,000,000 annual...