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...some of the competitors in Pillsbury's twelfth Annual Grand National Bake-Off last week, it was just one knead after another. One woman could not get her Danish rolls to rise because of the air conditioning in baking headquarters at the Statler Hotel in Washington, D.C.; another forgot her spectacles and could not see to pick the stems off the raisins (a Pillsbury vice president thoughtfully lent her his). Another sent Pillsbury staffers scurrying about to find bleached pumpkin seeds (they had given her unbleached ones...
...handsomest athlete in Rome and perhaps the vainest." Holder of the world record at 15 ft. 9¼ in., Bragg caused a brief flurry when he flubbed his first try at the qualifying height of 14 ft. 5¼ in. But when the competition settled down, Bragg forgot his nerves, his gimpy right knee, and the fact that he had to hoist a heavyweight's body of 6 ft. 3 in., 196 Ibs., then cleared 15 ft. 5⅛ in. to break the Olympic record...
...weight lifting. Russia's genial Alexander Kurynov. 26, had always venerated Hawaii's two-time Olympic Champion Tommy Kono, 30. as one of the world's great athletes. Matched against Kono in the middleweight division, the Russian research scientist quickly forgot his hero worship, scored one of the Olympics' notable upsets by breaking Kono's world record, surpassing him by 22 Ibs., with a total of 964½ Ibs. in three lifts, and taking the gold medal...
...Laboratories in 1940. One of the scientists there "had a little chunk of black stuff with a couple of contacts on it," recalls Bell Physicist Walter H. Brattain, "and when he shone a flashlight on it, he got a voltage. I didn't believe it." But Brattain never forgot, and seven years later (a delay enforced by the war), using the same "black stuff"-silicon-in an electrolytic solution, he got the same effect: a current was produced ten times as great as that from any other photoelectric device. A few months later they achieved the "transistor effect...
Protection's Hint. Throughout his speech, Kennedy kept his audience of 5,000 listeners rooted to their seats, and some veteran reporters forgot to take notes. Not until he finished was there a great burst of applause and a surge toward the candidate. The Kennedy spell-which he had promised would be cast again, once he had shaken off the legislative frustrations of Washington-was working. It had been that way, increasingly, since Jack Kennedy left Washington and its disappointments behind him the previous day. Barnstorming through his native New England, he encountered larger and more enthusiastic crowds...