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...lift their wineglasses to toast the sunrise after an all-night question-and-answer session with a professor of aerodynamics. In a laboratory a computer expert works on a pet project: developing an artificial nose that can smell. Around the campus, research teams study the sonar system of the bat in flight, assemble atoms into crystals capable of withstanding extraordinary stress, inquire into "the feasibility of controlling manipulative devices molded after human arms and hands by means of a general-purpose computer." And at their switchboards operators tirelessly greet the thousands of callers to UNiversity 4-6900 in Cambridge, Mass...
...shape of the bat has changed because everyone swings for the fences. Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found out it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs-it's the speed with which you swing it. So now everyone uses a bat with a thin handle and a long taper, so that most of the wood's in the end. You can whip this one around and get power in your swing...
...Every pitcher you face has the slider and uses it pretty well. When I came up to the majors, very few pitchers had it. It fits the shape of this bat. It comes in like a fast ball and breaks a few inches in toward the hands of the batter. That means it breaks in where there is no wood in the bat. Just the thin handle. It breaks so late you can't adjust your swing for it. Used to be all you had to worry about was the fast ball, the curve and the change...
Addition and subtraction were perhaps no more difficult than they were for the Romans, who could easily take XXXIX from CIV, but multiplication and division often unhinged the juvenile mind. Sample: if 23 cricket bats cost ?25 11s. 9d., how much does one cricket bat cost...
...always ready to eat," he says. "Chinatown was wonderful: an egg roll and two bowls of chow fan for 40?. A little concentrated on the calories, perhaps." Precociously peripatetic at 15, Ancel spent the summer in a lumber camp, left school midway through the year to shovel bat manure in an Oatman, Ariz. cave. "Great fun," says Keys. "I slept out in the desert with the other desert rats. I'd hate to think what we ate. Stews and sourdough bread, I guess...