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...world champion New York Yankees. He wore his blonde hair short, and T.V. advertising executives begged for his services to plug their latest masculinity-producing hair tonics. Then two things happened to Jim Bouton: he lost his fastball, and the owners and other players discovered that he was a flake...
...thumbnail-sized automatic switches that are designed to shut off the oxygen tank's internal heater if its temperature rises above 80° F. Tests showed that the temperature, if unchecked, could soar as high as 1,000° and cause the electrical insulating material to flake off. The arcing that results can ignite the insulation. Heat from the fire expands the compressed semiliquid oxygen, and its pressure eventually increases enough to burst the tank. The safety switches were apparently damaged when the heater was used during a test before the launch...
Through their toy films, the Eameses have examined everyday objects by illustrating the objects' characteristics; tops are to be spun, not to sit on the shelf. So for seven minutes the audience delights in watching whirling tops of different colors and nationalities. A snow-flake top from India splits and becomes five tops spinning at once. There is no narration; a musical score anticipates the spinning function found even in a jack or thumbtack...
Destroy or Create. But as rapidly as Brody had cracked into the consciousness of America, the façade began to flake. His bank enigmatically refused to honor Brody's checks "at this time." What was Brody really worth? "I've got a hundred billion," he said. "No, that was yesterday. Maybe I'm worth a trillion today." Actually, Brody inherited only a part of the income on the $6,881,000 estate his grandfather left in 1965. Estimates of Brody's worth range from half a million dollars to as much...
...Lovaas of U.C.L.A. tried out reinforcement on a small group of vegetable-like psychotic children who were capable of no other utterances than guttural noises in their throats. Lovaas waited until they were hungry, then gave them a taste of sugar-coated cornflakes. Next, he held up a few flakes before the children and waited for them to make a sound. When they did, he immediately gave each of them another flake and said "Good!" After a few more attempts, he pressed their lips together, demonstrated the sound of "mmmm" and rewarded the children with praise and cereal when they...