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There was something of that starkness in the two-foot-long pieces of lumber on the ocean bottom. The planking had been preserved under the mud--toredo worms eat any un-protected organic material--and uncovered with an air lift, a sort of under-water vacuum cleaner. The planks were well turned-out, and some were joined in a V with wood dowels...
Primary Accident. A lonely tinkerer in the style of the Edison era, Adams has supported his yen for inventing by toiling at a lengthy catalogue of jobs-cowboy, barber, auto mechanic, house painter, merchant seaman, research director for a vacuum cleaner company. His pre-war kitchen triumph was a primary (nonrechargeable) battery that delivered an even level of electricity over long periods of time. Until then familiar primary batteries delivered electricity at a declining rate until they wore out; their charge drained off even when not in use; and they rapidly deteriorated when subjected to extreme temperatures...
Keeping Clean. Intelligence men's intrigues wash cleaner in To Trap a Spy and The Spy with My Face. Originally designed for home use, these television retreads are expanded versions of two episodes from MGM's The Man from U.N.C.L.E. series (the seams still show). In Face, Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) seduces Thrush Agent Senta Berger somewhat more explicitly than he could before, when he had to take time out for commercials. In Trap, Luciana Paluzzi adds sex appeal until gunfire spoils her game, but the story really concerns an ordinary housewife (Patricia Crowley) who helps Solo foil...
...Rubinstein. There was a concert to be played in Boston, so he packed his suitcases, not forgetting a shoe bag crammed with the good-luck charms that his four children have given him over the years?baby shoes, a turquoise marble, a set of jacks, a pipe-cleaner doll, an acorn, a crumbled plaster angel. He put on his fur-lined blue suede shoes and his long navy blue overcoat with the wide Persian lamb lapels, cocked his black beaver fedora rakishly over one eye, and headed for the airport...
...will bear children so much stabler than the neurotic children of my generation." Never tying one though to another, she hurries on: "Children of working mothers don't really care that their mothers aren't at home all day. They don't really care who runs the vacuum cleaner...