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...Rand announced an especially quiet Remington electric typewriter, only to find that secretaries complained that the new model was slow and stiff. In fact, the quiet model was at least as fast and workable. Without the old hum, however, typists had the impression that they were working less briskly. Hoover Co. had the same experience. Their engineers perfected an almost whooshless vacuum cleaner that promised to be a smashing success. But housewives, who associate noise with power, assumed that the new machine would not effectively suck up dirt, and it found a market only in hospitals and nursing homes...
...national results also included several names left out of the Harvard totals. Hubert Humphrey, Lester Maddox, John Mitchell, and J. Edgar Hoover all made the national...
...Haut Brion ($43), and a goodly supply of 1961 Dom Pérignon at $55 per magnum. Les Trois Soleils offers no entertainment, but "dancing weekends" are a regular attraction at Orly's top-floor Brasserie, where "Les 5 G-Men" pound a beat of which J. Edgar Hoover would hardly approve...
Rioters smashed the windows of more than 95 businesses in Berkeley and eight buildings in Palo Alto, including Stanford's Hoover Library. Seattle found itself in the middle of its worst outbreak of violence in decades: some in a crowd of 2,000 demonstrators broke bank windows and lobbed blue paint bombs, rocks and tear-gas grenades at the entrance to the federal courthouse before 290 nightstick-swinging police dispersed them. In Washington, D.C., a group of 500-chanting, "Two, four, six, eight, liberate the Watergate"-marched on the luxury Potomac-side apartment complex that houses a number...
...miles of shelves, the browser might have come upon a 1702 edition of Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana, a signed first edition of John Brown's Body or a mint copy of Agricola's De Re Metallica signed by the translators, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover. In the musty chaos of books-memoirs, Shakespeare, Chinese history, the Arctic, the Civil War, Egypt-a visitor to Lowdermilk's was in a Gutenberg's midden of all manner of civilizations...