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Among newly patented inventions [TIME, May 12] you mentioned a plastic, strapless [brassière] as having "distortion point 310°." As an engineering student who is eternally reminded to pay particular heed to units of measurement, your statement leaves me guessing. Was it in angular or temperature units...
...Weiss Nicht." An angular, middle-aged woman, who had been weaving through the crowd from sidewalk to curb in a futile effort to keep her ill-shod feet dry, suddenly sighted the twelve men. She stopped in her tracks, stared wide-eyed at them for a full minute. Then she dropped her threadbare market bag, flew across the street in front of a lumbering, charcoal-burning truck and threw herself with a gasping cry upon the third prisoner. Prisoners and passers-by paused and gaped dumbly at the two Rodinesque figures fingering the backs of each other's rough...
Last week, the Hall's electorate - 161 U.S. baseball writers - added four more names to the 49 on the plaques. All the new choices were living men (and all in their 40s). The four: ¶ Robert Moses ("Lefty") Grove, 46, taciturn and angular, one of baseball's greatest southpaws. His equipment: control and a fireball exceeded only by the late Walter Johnson's. He won exactly 300 games (31 in his best year with the Athletics), quit baseball five years ago. Present occupation: running a combination poolroom and bowling alley at Lonaconing...
...winter sun. Jet fighters streaked by. Inside Mexico City's brilliant, white marble Palacio de Bellas Artes, outgoing chief executive Manuel Avila Camacho gave over the red, white and green band that was his symbol of office, and an aide quickly adjusted it diagonally across the chest of angular Miguel Alem...
...Schlumbohm's pride & joy is Chemex, a glass coffeemaker that looks like an angular hourglass. Dr. Schlumbohm, who drinks six cups of coffee a day, invented it because he was sick of bad coffee. Said he: "With this, even a moron can make good coffee...