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...Pedrick, 52, often found his game wanting. "I was frustrated with my slicing and hooking," he says, "and I spent a lot of time looking for the damn ball in the rough. It was infuriating." But Pedrick, a mechanical engineer by training, a tinkerer by inclination-and a better inventor than golfer-has now filed plans with the British Patent Office for a series of devices that could offer the suffering duffer new hope on the links...
Idea's Beauty. The secret of the swift, silent ride is simple magnetism. Even before World War I, a farsighted French inventor, Emile Bachelet, demonstrated the feasibility of lifting railroad cars slightly off the track and propelling them forward with strong electromagnetic forces. The beauty of Bachelet's idea was that it virtually eliminated rail friction. But the technology of that day was unable to produce sufficient electricity at a low enough cost...
...Karl, the lone inventor, brims with hope. But at times he wonders if it has been worth it. He has had a miserable ten years. Five of his horses have been killed by lightning, the old Corvette hardly runs any more. Karl has been stopped by police 400 times, and duped by two different firms that promised to build a prototype of his car but tried to steal his patent instead. Karl is out $30,000. He looks older than his 54 years and has grown careless about his appearance. He trembles. But a man who will spend three years...
Schimmel's appointment doubles the number of women holding full professorships at the University. She assumes a chair endowed by the late A. K. Ozai Durrani, best known as the inventor of Minute Rice...
...roommate. Each player must dial, and then blurt "I love you" to the person he holds dearest. All the players are stoned out of their minds, but not out of their situations. Amid the four-letter confrontations, ugly-and sometimes beautiful-revelations occur, until finally the game's inventor is buried alive in a landslide of truths...