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First prize (a strictly functional Leghorn pullet) went to Tom Currie of Southport, Conn, for his "man"-a creature with a flat, streamlined head atop a flying-saucer body. He had an aspirin tablet for an eye and a built-in cigarette, but "no ears-radar perception; no stomach -no limit on drinking; no legs-walking, what's that?" Second prize (an egg) was won by Julian Everett of Manhattan for a cork-calved, swivel-eared robot whose right hand was a "clam digger for getting," his left a "built-in money box for keeping." Among the items...
Drugs like aspirin raise the "pain threshold"-i.e., the point where sensations, often pleasant ones, ring the alarm of pain. An affectionate pat becomes a painful slap, for instance, if the patter pats hard enough. A person who has been
...spent a year in the Milwaukee Jewish Children's home, now lives with foster parents. At Shorewood High School, he plays football, boxes, is an orator of parts. But in the timbre of his voice there was more than rhetoric: "We have everything here . . . super highways, aspirin, fine hospitals, penicillin, atomic energy, bubble gum, Buck Rogers ... All these, plus the necessities of life. But the greatest of all is the temple of liberty...
...also finds steaks, Nylons, chocolates, cigars, soap, butter, evening gowns, whipped cream. He finds everything, including champagne (to stimulate the evening) and aspirin (to soothe the morning after). The neon signs advertising these wares match Times Square's own fireworks. Shiny Buicks and Studebakers roll along tree-lined boulevards amid scents of spring and U.S. gasoline. The scene is no mirage. It is Brussels...
...gets a hand-made pine rack lined with small jars of herbs would probably prefer aspirin. A camel's hair bathrobe at upwards of $100.00 not only would represent its North African parents after falling to the floor a couple of times, but would also be no more happily received than half its weight in Camel's. As a book, "Sporting Architecture" is, to Harvard men, worth only the number of Hymarxes if can be traded...