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...Russians said they need the place for expanding Moscow University, which is next door. The embassy building, erected in 1933 to house Soviet artists and composers, costs the U.S. an annual rent of 250,000 rubles (about $62,500). Shoddily made and shy of electrical outlets for the gadget-loving Americans, 13-15 Mokhovaya also has its advantages-it is only a mile from the Ambassador's residence (a pre-revolutionary palace called Spaso House), and has a window on the Kremlin, across a couple of acres of police-guarded asphalt...
...delegates seemed impatient with the time-honored ritual-the prayer, the singing of the national anthem, the welcoming speeches, and the chair's plea, repeated like an incantation, to clear the aisles. Gabrielson delivered his opening speech, his eyes glued to a gadget on the speaker's stand known as the teleprompter (which spells out a prepared speech line for line on a moving band). Said he, in a political cliche with a hard core of truth: "The fate of the world is in the hands of these delegates...
...Detroit one day in 1930, a partnership was formed between an ex-blacksmith and a mechanic. The blacksmith was Fred Fisher of the famed Fisher brothers; the mechanic was Harry Franklin Vickers, 31, who had invented a hydraulic steering device for autos. Fisher wanted to make the gadget, but he was 20 years ahead of his time; no automaker would...
After long years of work in a jumbled, gadget-filled laboratory at St. Louis University, a biologist announced 14 years ago some results of his experiments with the mysterious forces of life & death. Basile J. Luyet, a priest of the order of missionaries of St. Francis de Sales, had succeeded in freezing onion skin and other plant tissue into a state of suspended animation: reheated, his experimental tissues began to grow again...
...flick of the wrist the paper coil would shoot five feet into the air and snap back into position. Tigrett, an easygoing Southerner who had long made a hobby of buying up patents, tracked down the inventor, bought his patent for $100 plus royalties, and started producing the gadget in a small Chicago shop. Since then, 38-year-old John Tigrett has sold 15 million "Zoomerangs," and built a $2,000,000 annual toy business. This week fast-growing Toyman Tigrett put his 1952 models on sale. Among his new gadgets: a "Jet Zoom" pistol (98?) and bow & arrow Zoomerangs...