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Cooling the Cans. When the cans first come out of the pile they are fiercely radioactive. Men with long poles flip them into thick-walled lead tunnels to cool off. After eight hours, most of the aluminum's short-lived activity has died away and the cans' milder-mannered contents are safe enough to work...
...another negotiation, Bing and up & coming Tenor Richard Tucker found themselves "only ?50 out." They left it to the flip of a coin; Bing won. By last week, moreover, almost all of the Met's supporting singers were snug in new contracts...
...baggy Brooks Brothers suits and gay cravats, he could charm Chicago hostesses when he wanted to. But he was also irrepressibly flip. Asked what he thought of Yale, he replied: "Compared to Chicago, Yale is a boy's finishing school." Asked what he thought of Chicago, he said: "The faculty does not amount to much, but the president and the students are wonderful." When he prepared to testify before a committee of the Illinois legislature (after Drugstore Tycoon Charles Walgreen had charged that his niece was being taught Communism at the university), Trustee Laird Bell offered to pay Hutchins...
...case the result of this contest is just about as unpredictable as the fall of the half-dollar they'll flip at midfield at 1:45 p.m. This is more than a mere football game they play today; it's a matter of institutional honor
Resourceful U.S. domestic wildcats had found another way to get around CAB regulations. By keeping their flights entirely within the borders of one state, they could flip their tails at CAB. In California, six wildcats flew between Los Angeles and San Francisco for $9.95-less than half the fare charged by United, American and four other certified carriers...