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...machine is the latest gadget of the power garden tool business, an industry that has sprung up like crab grass since the war. All over the U.S. last week, men were revving up their power mowers and heading into the wild green yonder with all the enthusiasm of fighter pilots climbing into the sun. Children were cleaning up as much as $75 a week, making the neighborhood rounds with the family machine. Sears, Roebuck reported it was selling one power mower for every two non-powered machines...
...have held the nation's horrified eye for 100 years because so little is concealed from the public view. In Pennsylvania the political backrooms have picture windows. Politicians let down their hair (if any) in front of reporters. Pennsylvania politics wears its skeleton outside its body, like a crab...
...most improbable victory of the day, the Junior Varsity set a faster time than the varsity boat, 7:07 to 7:09, to win over Yale and Princeton. The victory came despite a beautiful crab, which nearly stopped the boat caught by Bill Holden with a mile and a quarter...
...Waterman, who discovered the peculiar talents of the horseshoe crab's eyes, is now trying to find out how the eyes work. He dissects them under a microscope, attaches their optic nerves to delicate electrical instruments, and measures their responses to light of varying polarity. He removes their tiny lenses and measures their optical properties...
...horizon. Then the sun could be used to steer by, just as if it were visible. If Dr. Waterman's work is successful, U.S. pilots may some time steer across the North Pole, high above the overcast, guided by an instrument patterned on the eye of a horseshoe crab...