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Hobby Into Career. The prospect of such spectacular savings in flight training was what spurred Ed Link to invent his first trainer more than 30 years ago while working in his father's piano-and-organ factory in Binghamton, N.Y. Link, whose hobby was flying, saw the need for a training device that would prepare flyers for flying before they had to take a real plane into the air. He and his brother George put together a plane-like gadget, offered to train all comers to fly at $85 a head (v. $25 to $50 per hour...
...persons unknown, in Beirut: "Fire at police, disarm agents. Continue shooting all day. Blow up the presidential palace. Kill whenever necessary; throw bombs from roofs and in streets. Burn a few cars during nights: this is indispensable. Take Tripoli as an example and do the same." Agitators need not invent events to profit by them...
...charged with espionage. To avoid the scandal of a trial, which would involve a public admission that the General Staff itself had been corrupted by the Germans, the army tries to shame Dreyfus into suicide. He refuses, and the army is forced to convene a court-martial and invent enough evidence to support the charges. Convicted of high treason, Captain Dreyfus is publicly degraded and stripped of rank in the presence of the Minister of War himself, General Mercier, who looks down with cool indifference upon the ruined man, apparently not in the least concerned by new evidence, just handed...
Scientists, it seems, are people who "work with science and drink coffee." They invent new "thoiries," or work on such things as the "salt vacine." They are "shabby dressed," often indulge in utter nonsense ("I don't see any reason for putting a satilight up"). Without them, one student conceded, "we would not have any of the modern conveniences that we have today." But the scientist, said another, "does not need to be a genius. Albert Einstein had a very low IQ." Snorted still another pupil: "I don't think he has to be so brilliant he doesn...
...Yeller himself, a flop-eared hound with soulful eyes, who behaves as if he were trying to persuade Disney to invent a new cartoon character called Supermutt. He stops a bear that is charging the kid brother, rescues the older brother from a pack of wild hogs, saves the mother from being chewed up by a maddened wolf. The action, in short, is exciting for everybody, but all too often the dialogue is only for the very young. Sample: Kid Brother (after the family cow is killed) : "How come you shot old Rose?" Big Brother: "She was sick." Kid Brother...