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...Albert was born in Ulm, in 1879. As a child he would make up songs, which he chanted in his room. But at school he was shy and backward, and his parents wondered whether his brain was up to par. When he was twelve, he got a copy of Euclid's Geometry, Thirty years later, Einstein recalled: "It made me realize that man is capable, through the force of thought alone, of achieving . . . stability and purity." At 13 he read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Still, it took him two attempts to pass the entrance exams...
...Leonard E. Loos, principal of the Euclid (Ohio) Shore Junior High School, complained that schoolteachers as pictured on TV are lowering academic prestige. Said Principal Loos: "How often are a pupil's reactions based on the feeling that his teacher is a scatterbrained Mr. Peepers ... or an irrepressible wag like Our Miss Brooks...
...recession, one business sure to boom is roadbuilding, sparked by federal and state aid. As a handy economic anchor to windward, General Motors is buying Cleveland's Euclid Road Machinery Co., one of the biggest U.S. makers of giant earthmovers and other road-building machinery. Price: $18.3 million...
...movies in such numbers as Hollywood had not seen since the end of World War II. By the millions they came, to peer through an eye-straining haze of alcohol and iodine (the basic ingredients of the H Polarizer) at a simple optical illusion whose principle was known to Euclid and whose practice put grandfather to sleep on Sunday afternoons...
...real 3-D, the problems are not so much esthetic as technical, scientific and medical. The object of all good stereoscopy is the fulfillment of the 26th Theorem of Euclid's Optics,* which was paraphrased by Poet-Physician Oliver Wendell Holmes back in 1859: "By means of these two different views of an object, the mind, as it were, feels around it and gets an idea of its solidity. We clasp an object with our eyes as with our arms . . . and then we know it to be more than a surface...