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...Defensive. With his thin hair rumpled in the breeze, his coat slung on the seat beside him, he kept his Ford rolling on-from a V.F.W. meeting in Pink Hill, to the Daniel Boone celebration in Salisbury (accompanied by Vice President Alben Barkley), to a Lions Club meeting in Albemarle. After every meeting he stepped down from the platform to chat with the crowds, often delayed his schedule because he insisted on stopping off for roadside discussions. When he disappeared during the Wallace strawberry festival last week, his supporters knew just where to find Frank Graham: at the market, talking...
...woes of the proprietress' daughter: her fiancé had been called to arms, and in order to persuade the Blessed Virgin to keep the young man from harm, the girl had-as a special sacrifice-given up her daily quota of a dozen Cokes. "She has become as thin as a nail," wailed her mother, "and I have been afraid she would...
...Rome last week Rodolfo Graziani, once a field marshal of Italy, stood nervously before a military court. Twitching his thin lower lip and fingering a monocle, the Fascist conqueror of Ethiopia heard a fellow officer declare him guilty of military collaboration with the Germans during World War II. The admiral and four generals who made up the court rejected Graziani's proud plea that he had simply done a soldier's duty. Graziani, they decided, had gone well beyond the call of duty when he joined Mussolini's German-supported rump government after Italy surrendered...
Like men elsewhere, a thin little Indian with sparkling eyes is deeply worried about the state of the world. He is 34-year-old Acharya Sri Tulsi Ramji, head of the Terapanthi sect of the Jains, a religious group that believes in nonviolence. In a campaign to improve humanity, Tulsi Ramji in 1948 founded the Anuvrati Sangh (Atomic Vows Society). Its members take 148 vows, renewable yearly...
Hamilton's prop men designed a thin, knife-edged blade of conventional, square-tipped shape that would move fast enough all along its length to leave shock waves behind. This did the trick. Tested in a wind tunnel, a scale model of the new propeller proved to be 80% efficient at 600 m.p.h. No shock waves roiled the air-flow over its smooth surfaces. Shock waves are not quick enough...