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With Lamont Library still in the erector set stage, the failure of Widener as an undergraduate library must continue to irritate students for the majority of their college tenure. Widener was planned exclusively as a research institution and stumbles into a welter of malfunctions when trying to cope with college needs. These inefficiencies comes as a direct result of an unequal scramble for books between undergraduates and research students and a poorly organized circulation system. Until Lamont Library provides the answer to College reference work, an interim system emphasizing student requirements rather than those of the 1500 men holding stack...
...Deep South execution chamber, after talking with four boys (one 16, two 17, one 19) who are soon to die there, the sheriff speaks with the tickled-pink fascination of a kid with a new erector set: "This is where we're going to execute them. . . . Over here is where the chair will be. We used to hang them. The noose came down here and the ropes were tied to the bars on this window here. Then we cut this trap in the floor here, and we dropped them below and they carried the bodies away. That made...
...except for such items as bicycles, trains and erector sets which will still be short, U.S. moppets will have almost everything. Items: streamlined baby strollers; aluminum jeeps and station wagons; helicopters; stuffed spaniels that glow in the dark; toy sinks with running water; model kits to make prefabricated houses; dump trucks; and an electrical gun that throws pictures on the wall with each pull of the trigger. For the first time in six years, Germany will ship some $250,000 worth of music boxes, harmonicas, mohair deers, whiz-bang racing cars...
...Erector Set. Although dispatches did not identify the type of bridge, it was a safe bet that it was a Bailey-a British invention which has carried Allied armies across the river-seamed face of Europe and is a main reliance in their coming big battle: the spanning of the Rhine. Field Marshal Montgomery calls the Bailey bridge "quite the best thing in its line we have ever had." The bridge, at once simple and ingenious, was first sketched on the back of an envelope in 1940 by a tweedy British civil engineer named Donald Colman Bailey...
Bailey's bridge, designed for speedy building, is nothing more than a large-scale erector set. It consists of interchangeable, prefabricated steel panels which can be swiftly put together in almost any shape. The panels are held together by steel pins stuck through ready-made holes. The only tools needed are a few standard wrenches. Six men can carry the heaviest panel...