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Hungary's socialized candy industry last week polled "elite schoolchildren" to find out just how to flavor the new "Elite Pupil" candy bar (target for the first year of the Five-Year Plan: 1,000,000). The children sampled bars of orange, vanilla and rum flavors. The country kids liked vanilla; those in Budapest, rum. So there will be two kinds. Said a Communist official of the candy trust: "Candies are no longer the monopoly of the wealthy capitalist children...
...Walton Butterworth, 46, Louisiana-born Princeton graduate and a onetime Rhodes scholar, was ousted this week from his job as Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. A central figure in the long argument over U.S.-China policy, he was the target of a concentrated Republican attack when the Senate was asked to confirm his appointment less than a year ago. Senator Vandenberg had called his naming a "very great mistake" which meant, said Vandenberg, "continuation of a regime which inevitably is connected with a very tragic failure in the Far East." Nevertheless, Administration forces in the Senate jammed...
...last week, Historian Nevins was making progress in stopping the waste. He had started a special project for collecting interviews and papers from people around New York City who had played a big behind-the-scenes role in history. His first target two years ago was a man who had never written a page of memoirs and had been all but forgotten by the public. Yet 78-year-old George McAneny, a political power for four decades, was able to tell Nevins more about New York City politics than almost any other man alive...
Bulls'-Eye. In Nogales, Ariz., gun-totin' police signed up for target practice after the chief's eleven-year-old daughter, Bonnie McDonald, won the department's annual pistol shoot...
When the fattened-up electrons are making their last turn around the tube, they are deflected by special magnets and made to strike a tungsten target, knocking out of it a slender beam of enormously powerful X rays. In effect, a betatron is an outsized X-ray tube; the X. rays are its desirable product...