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Former Crimson President Osborne F. Ingram ’35 recalled sending his finished stories down a chute in the newsroom to the typists in the basement...
...When they were out of copy downstairs, they would bang on the chute,” Osborne said...
...recent decades, the chute has been replaced by building-wide servers which electronically transmit articles from reporters in the newsroom to designers in the basement...
...perfecting our act by the seat of our talk-show pants. But we all liked the attention. What immature actor doesn't? Of course Harrison might have been mature, but I barely noticed, being self-obsessed and 20; he, 34, was an icon right out of the solar chute. We giggled and ran from chasing fans and were amazed. Suddenly we went from being a carpenter, a TV actor and a movie star's kid to looking like three of the new "Fab Four"--George Lucas being John, and you can mix and match the rest...
...World Trade Center attack created a lot of interest in ways to get people out of skyscrapers in a hurry. Here's a novel solution: the AMES-1, an evacuation system that looks like an amusement-park water slide. A Kevlar rescue chute is installed in the outer wall of a building. In an emergency the unit springs open and the chute uncoils to the ground. It takes about 19 seconds to slide to safety from the top floor of an 11-story building. INVENTOR Eli Nir AVAILABILITY Now, $20,000 TO LEARN MORE www.ames-1.com...