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Damis is a 155-pound sophomore form Portland, Oregon, who missed more than half of last year's grid season because of an injury. He finally did get to run three plays with the '53 freshman B-team, however, and managed to score two touchdowns in the process. He was not invited back for early practice with the varsity this fall, and thus has been playing for only two weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomore Jim Damis Star In Jayvee Eleven Loss, 14-0 | 10/9/1954 | See Source »

Rain Brain. An electronic grid that touches off a buzzer alarm in the house when rain strikes it was put on the market by Micro-Moisture Controls. Inc. of Mineola. N.Y. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Aug. 16, 1954 | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

CARNIVAL BY THE SEA (327 pp. Si grid de Lima-Scribner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malevolence in a Coffeepot | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...darkness, Madrileños cursed the latest and worst of a series of major cuts in the city's electricity supply. It was the same throughout most of Spain. A season of parching droughts had left the reservoirs empty. The hydroelectric power plants are old. and the grid system that distributes their current does not suffice for Spain's growing need for industrial power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Strike in the Darkness | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

Architect Le Corbusier, who drives his 20-year-old Fiat at a nervous, bucking 15 m.p.h., treats traffic in Chandigarh like a dangerous beast. He has seven different types of roads criss-crossing his dream city like a waffle grid. There will be separate roads for children, for bicycles, pedestrians and cars. All fast, cross-city arteries are sunk 14 feet below ground level to hide the traffic and reduce noise, will have bridges for pedestrians to cross safely. Says Le Corbusier, peering happily through his thick spectacles: "The system will restore to the pedestrian the dignity and peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: City on the Plain | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

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