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...only to have a severe relapse after six months back on the job. What helped the doctors clear up his case was the fact that the cop sometimes took a holiday down on the farm, working a tractor that required him to walk behind it. Helped by tractor-engine exhaust, his vacation "cure" gave him the same nervous-system symptoms as he had had in the city: abnormal brain waves, mental dullness, inability to concentrate, and tremor...
...have cost Harvard the Ivy Championship by forcing the Crimson to exhaust its precious supply of timeouts on illegitimate substitutions during the second half of the Columbia game. Harvard fans recall with some displeasure the frantic efforts of quarterback Mike Bassett to get the ball in play at the end of that game with only a short distance to the endzone remaining...
...even this list does not exhaust Hachette's properties, nor its claims to dominance. Brodard et Taupin, France's largest printing house, is a Hachette subsidiary. Hachette has links with two advertising agencies, Havas and Publicis. It owns a mill that makes coated paper, has a majority interest in a company that binds books and manufactures stationery, and in another that produces textbooks and school supplies. It controls one company producing TV programs and owns another. It owns a bank. It operates all 1,217 news kiosks in Paris' Métro, railroad stations and airports...
...sophisticated. In Detroit's Cobo Hall, a Honeywell control panel not only regulates air conditioning but also operates the public address system, lights and fire alarms and monitors the 1,800-car garage; whenever the carbon monoxide gets too strong, Honeywell's Data Center automatically turns on exhaust fans. Altogether Honeywell has installed some 1,000 such units, including two in Manhattan's massive Chase Manhattan Bank building. Last week the company signed a $100,000 contract for a distant and unusual control project: a centrally controlled heating and air-conditioning system for the humid mansion...
...grandeur of his tasks, he finally produced the Spoils of War-a big and ugly one-man band strung up on a gallows and made from artillery shell casings, cloud-chamber bowls (from the Radiation Laboratories at Berkeley), a blow-boy (composed of bellows, a 1912-auto-exhaust horn and three organ pipes), a whang gun ("WHANG-OOOO," it hoots when struck), and a raspidor that sounds like mice scratching inside a wall...