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Sanjib Mishra, associate professor of Physics,says one of his favorite one-liners came formscientist Ernest Rutherford, famous for his'gold-foil' experiment...
...there had ever been two of them), the strains of Happy Days Are Here Again thundered from a giant pipe organ, and a 25-minute demonstration for Lyndon began. It had more noise (klaxons, foghorns, etc.) and color (yellow balloons, tiny parachutes with American flags, sunflower posters for Kansas, gold-foil sunbursts for California and real corn for Iowa) than most such orgies, but those outside the hall saw very little...
...business had no chic when, in 1923, Parry Borland Saylor became head of the U. S. branch of Canada Dry Co. of Canada. A sharp, aggressive onetime tire salesman, he made his product look as much like a champagne bottle as possible (green glass, gold-foil collar), went after the public with a svelte and costly advertising campaign. The results so astounded his Canadian bosses that they sold the parent company to him on the spot. But Parry Dorland Saylor soon struck a snag. He wanted control of a minority interest owned by four rich young Manhattan socialites including John...
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