Word: ascher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three years ago, Professor Ascher H. Shapiro, head of the Department of Mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, finally proved the counterclockwise movement for the Northern Hemisphere by constructing a perfectly symmetrical tub filling it with with a clockwise swirl, then letting it sit for 24 hours in still air. After that, he carefully pulled the plug and filmed the results. Using Shapiro's technique, five persistent investigators at the University of Sydney have now duplicated his experiment, demonstrating that Down Under water will drain clockwise. To be sure they report in the magazine Nature, they cannot...
...Ascher is a kindly, greying lady, probably in her late fifties. She smiled at us, then at the manager and, in a voice reminiscent of a grandmother we know, anticipated our question, "I like working here very much. Don't ask too intimate questions...
...Aren't they a bit risque, Mrs. Ascher...
...they don't care how lousy a picture is. All they care about is how much money it takes in." Though touched by Mario's ambivalence, our earlier fears about the film's genre were fast rematerializing. But now Mario had us in arm, urging us to "interview Mrs. Ascher our glamorous candy attendent...
...your own opinion." Leaning forward she explained, "We used to have very good movies, but people either don't know how to read or they're too lazy to read, and we can't please everybody--it's very hard. "Much sobered we thanked Mario, Joe, Al, and Mrs. Ascher and took our place in the all male audience. Heavenly Bodies, admittedly, is a "girlie" film but as Joe says, it's "a good one, a very good...