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...electric car in light of the recent advances in superconductivity. Says IBM Physicist John Baglin: "The question is not 'How can we take this material and do something everyone has wanted to do?' but 'How can we do something that no one has yet imagined?' " Some tongue-in- cheek suggestions overheard at a superconductor meeting: superconducting ballroom floors and rinks that would enable dancers and skaters literally to float through their motions...
...Morris in a valentine to New York City in 1945 that might make even Allen blush. Back then, she reports, young men returned from war victorious and well-mannered; the first thing they asked for when they disembarked was milk. Half the earth's races huddled together in picturesque, cheek-by-jowl harmony. The subways, "awful and astonishing in about equal measure," cost only a nickel to ride. Grover Whalen, a flamboyant Irishman with a flower in his lapel, was glad-handing the visiting firemen as the city's official greeter, while saturnine Robert Moses, the master builder, was sundering...
...national media gathers at a press conference at Oral Robert's palatial estate to witness the final money exchange. Oral publicly accepts the certified check and thanks his savior. He then leaves the conference with the cheek to "deliver the goods." In a few minutes Oral returns with a smile on his face...
What Salzman's Chinese acquaintances lacked in cheek coloring they made up in generosity and frankness. A family of poor fishermen he befriended insisted that he accept a gift of their boat (he dissuaded them with difficulty). When he brought out his cello to play for the family, they rushed across the room "to touch the divine object -- the red velvet lining inside the cello case." An aging athlete, posing for a snapshot, inquired gravely if it is true that in America, where "everything is modernized," there are ways of adding hair to photographs? "If you could do that...
Throughout Harvard history, students have blown off steam by staging protests against University policies, ranging from food to investment quality. And administrators have become pretty heated up about the students' skirmishes, responding with disciplinary action, ranging from arrests to merely turning the other cheek...