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...students fell into an opposite snare. They got thousands of voters to the polls-only to find them voting for the wrong man. Dovish Challenger Lewis Kaden failed by a wide margin in an effort to unseat Democratic Representative Edward Patten in the 15th District, right in the Princeton backyard of the M.N.C. No one can fault the students' energy; they got 3,000 more voters to take part in the congressional primary than voted in a U.S. Senate primary in the same district. But an analysis showed that blanket canvassing in pro-Kaden areas brought Patten voters...
...Backyard Problems. Despite successes, Audrey Cohen's graduates were at first blocked by the very degree barrier that she set out to surmount. Often they advanced a rung or two in their new jobs and then stalled. The reason, along with professional jealousy, was that C.H.S. had no power to grant formal degrees. So two years ago Mrs. Cohen petitioned the New York State Board of Regents for a charter permitting her school to issue the same Associate in Arts degree available at the state's community colleges. "Everybody is so busy trying to mimic Harvard," she contended...
...When I retrieved TIME from the backyard, where I'd been reading, the birds and the bees were laughing their little heads...
...pedal and roll off. Indeed, it is so easy for most people to ride a bicycle that science has hardly bothered to answer a very obvious question: What gives the bicycle its extraordinary stability? Properly curious, a British research chemist named David E.H. Jones decided to do a little backyard experimenting. His plan: to identify the bicycle's essential stabilizing features by building one that completely lacked them. In short, he would construct a totally unridable bicycle...
...economic hurdles faced by the steam people, however are nearly insurmountable. Detroit hangs on tenaciously to its monopoly on the automobile, and because of the nature of the American economy it is difficult for anyone to compete. Jamison documents the competitive attempts of modern steam car builders from the backyard "kooks" who build cars in their homes as hobbies to the efforts of William P. Lear, a self-made multimillionaire who has taken on steam car production as a personal crusade...