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Murdered Dummy. The workers did no such thing. After listening for a few seconds, one of them rushed over and furiously stabbed the dummy scout with her sting. Smelling the deathly odor of venom, the other bees withdrew. This ritual murder was repeated many times. Something was obviously wrong...
Buoyant Granite. When the giant meteors stopped falling, and the atmosphere cooled off, the diminished moon, having lost about half its mass, was once more just outside Roche's limit. It was now revolving in the same direction as the earth, and as a result it withdrew slowly to its present distance (240,000 miles...
...voters. McKeldin, on the other hand, is a onetime Dale Carnegie Institute instructor who has obviously kissed the Blarney stone; his oratory earned him the honor of nominating Dwight Eisenhower at the Republican National Convention in 1952. Still McKeldin was the underdog. But the Republican candidate for city comptroller withdrew after a firm he once headed was found insolvent by the Baltimore Circuit Court. The G.O.P. filled the vacancy with Hyman Pressman, a Democrat who had switched tickets after los ing his own party's nomination for comptroller. Pressman, self-styled "watchdog'' of Baltimore's budget...
...dozen original subscribers to TIME in this room tonight. One of them was a humble priest in Worcester, Mass. In our second or third year, in a moment of youthful folly, we offered for $60 a perpetual subscription to TIME to a man and his heirs forever. We quickly withdrew the offer, but not before that same humble priest had taken us up on it. A faithful reader and an unfailing friend, His Eminence Francis Cardinal Spellman. Grandson of an immortal of industry, he has made the name greater than ever-in business, philanthropy, international affairs : Henry Ford...
...liberally oriented resolutions. Frontrunner, as the assembly opened, was the Rev. Carl Bates of Charlotte. N.C., who seemed to have doubts about the oldtime conservative religion: "Laymen have a sneaking suspicion that the Kingdom of God is more than ushering on Sundays." He agreed to be nominated, then suddenly withdrew his candidacy. His reason: he had searched his heart and found that God willed it. That left the way clear for a crusading conservative, the Rev. K. Owen White, 60, a Houston pastor and president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. He won by a scant 157 votes...