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...small-town railroad telegrapher is a determined member of a dying breed. He sits in a paint-peeling station house, idly fingering silent keys and dreaming of days when fellows such as young Thomas Edison made the vagabond telegrapher a giant among men and a hero to small boys. Times have passed him by, auto mated relay systems have obsoleted him -but the telegrapher hangs on by a finger...
Earth was a cylindar, like Edison's first records incised and not the blue plate special of today, air was also mist and dew and fog, immersed chords decor not unlike wallpaper, elemental, held its sway...
Gasping Leviathans. But modern air conditioning began with the discovery that cooling was not enough; it was also necessary to control the humidity. In 1902 Willis Carrier, who is said by his corporate heirs to be air conditioning's Edison, designed his first system for a Brooklyn printing plant (muggy air was wrinkling the paper for Judge magazine). In this system, coils both cooled the air and condensed the moisture out of it. But progress was slow at first. It was 1914 before the first home air conditioner-a huge, gasping leviathan-was installed in the Minneapolis home...
...power companies, which will be pressured by the government to spend the cash in southern Italy, plan to continue the diversification that they have foresightedly been undertaking for the past decade. The Edison Group, which is Italy's biggest utility and one of Nenni's favorite punching bags, has already spread into dozens of industries from steel to synthetic fibers. But even the fat compensation promised the companies is scant solace to many Italian businessmen, who fear that this is only the beginning of further government assaults on private enterprise. Cried Alberto Ferioli, deputy secretary of the business...
...that the U.S. was about to invade Laos; others understood that Russia had dumped American securities in Switzerland to ruin the U.S. market. Just as inevitably, there was talk about some gigantic plot. In Los Angeles, retired Newspaperman John Gray, 87, who held on to his falling Southern California Edison stock, said: "The whole thing was started by people who wanted to discredit the President. They sold off huge chunks of stock, prices went way down, as was planned, but then things got out of control." California's Maurice Soble, 67, a retired toy-store owner...