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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PRICKSONGS & DESCANTS, by Robert Coover. In a collection of clever, surreal-and sometimes repellent-short stories, the author of The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop, plays a literary shell game with his readers...
...create a new battery that would enable the electrics to match the performance of conventional cars, says Dr. J.H.B. George of Arthur D. Little Inc., would take "hundreds of millions of dollars in a crash research program, or 50 to 100 years." As an alternate solution, G.E.'s Bruce Laumeister reckons, it is now possible to recharge today's batteries in a few minutes-but only with heavy-duty circuits and chargers that cost far more than the car itself...
...With some unexpected difficulty in Cornell's case. The New York State attorney general has filed suit to block sale of the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory to EDP Technology, Inc., a Washington, D.C., company. The state contends that Cornell has no right to sell the lab to a private, profit-making company...
...billion! But David Mahoney, young and relaxed at 46, turns out to be 180° from the kind of executives I know back East. He sits behind a modern oval desk in a palatial three-room suite of offices that he has taken over as board chairman of Norton Simon, Inc., a year-and-a-half-old concern formed from Canada Dry, Hunt Foods, McCall's and other companies. The place is plush?driftwood walls, deep-pile carpet. The whole bit. He smiles and says, "Let's go outside." I follow him into the Norton Simon garden, and he takes...
...each and every one of his novels, The Origin of the Brunists and The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., the one and only Robert Coover performed brilliant literary acrobatics in the center ring. Now, with sleights of hand, desperate feints, chills and thrills, he impersonates the fat man and the thin lady, the magician pulling himself from a hat, the juggler, ringmaster, hall of mirrors...