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...Eugene, Ore., the Big Y store installed four "Rest-a-Checks" at the checkout stations so that customers could take it easy while waiting to pay bills. The Rest-a-Check is a circular turntable divided into three sections, each with a foam-rubber seat big enough to hold three people. When the check-out clerk is ready, he presses a lever which rotates the seats in merry-go-round fashion; the customer pays sitting down...
...British notions, have won Iddon the Fleet Street title of "Britain's Walter Winchell." Since 1943, bumptious Reporter Iddon ("let's face it, I'm a terrific egotist") has been doing his diary the way his bosses and readers seem to like it-by skimming the foam from the U.S. scene...
...Santayana, even a momentous East-West clash would be foam in the trough of history's innumerable waves. He has no chummy predisposition to back the U.S. team. Aristocratic, contemplative, traditional, he is separated from the America he left in 1912 by a wider gulf than the Atlantic. Occasionally his biases flash...
...meal to animal-feed manufacturers. To develop new soybean products, Joyce hired Dr. Percy Julian, a Negro chemist from DePauw University. The choice was good; Julian was the first to mass-produce sex hormones from soybeans successfully, gained further fame in World War II by developing a fire-fighting foam to smother gasoline and oil fires...
...sense of catastrophe grew rapidly. In the U.S., top scientists were urgently enlisted in Operation Protoprotoplasm-trying to create human life in test tubes. Female impersonators had a field day. So did the manufacturers of the "Miss America Dolls"-life-size models of the human female made of foam plastic...