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...appointed president pro tempore, and Mann seconded the motion." Dyer, Bocklet and Mann are all Amex stock specialists, that is, men assigned to trade in certain stocks to keep their price from leaping or sliding abnormally (New York Stock Exchange specialists laid out $100 million in one day to cushion a panic price break after Eisenhower's heart attack). In the case of the American Exchange, said SEC, there was "a concentration of power in the hands of a small self-perpetuating group dominated by specialists," resulting in "manifold and prolonged abuses by specialists and floor traders...
Click. The nine ball plops into the side pocket, the cue ball hits one cushion and stops near the center spot. Big as a water tower but light on his feet, with a diamond ring on a pudgy finger, the fat man moves around the table. For 31 consecutive hours, with an almost incredible repertoire of masse shots, bank shots, gather shots, and combinations, with just enough English and the right amount of draw, he has been defending his reputation as the best there is. He chalks up and shoots again. Click. The 15 ball slams into the corner...
...called in the engineers who developed the Hovercraft (TIME, June 22, 1959), an amphibian that floats above land or water on a cushion of air. Eventually, they devised a "bed" with twelve 6-in. jets arranged four to a side, with two at each end, and through them they pumped 2,000 cu. ft. of air a minute. The inward-facing jets created their own curtained cushion from which the air escaped at a smooth, continuous rate, equal to the input rate...
Surgeon Scales suggests that air-cushion levitation may be helpful in human patients by 1) reducing shock, 2) preventing loss of fluids by oozing from wound or burn areas, 3) quickly creating a dry, germproof "shield" over the wound, and 4) avoiding bedsores. How well a human patient would take to living on an upended wind tunnel, he does not yet know...
CAPRI: One of the most startling and influential pictures in recent years is La Dolce Vita, Frederico Fellini's rambling exposure of the degradation of Rome's cafe-society. Take a cushion with you if you like (it's three hours long), but by all means see it. Direction, acting, and camerawork are unparalleled and stunning...