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...that the situation at rush hours could hardly degenerate. Yet it could. Over 200 cars entering and leaving a structure almost in the middle of the Square, and still others stopping to take home another part of the building's occupants added to those merely passing through would just jam...
...practical applications of their theory. In time, they believe, the bent beam may provide: 1) a new tool for studying the effect of solar eruptions on the earth's magnetic field; 2) a new method for long-range surveillance of missile activity behind the Iron Curtain; 3) jam-proof long-distance communications...
...back, never got to the inaugural. It took Pat Nixon 2½ hours to get from her Wesley Heights home to the Senate Office Building, where her husband was holding a farewell party for his staff. Secretary of State Christian Herter got stuck for two hours in the traffic jam. At the White House, 30 members of President Eisenhower's staff were snowbound for the night. Determined partygoers struggled through the storm, some of the men in white ties and parkas, some of the women wearing leotards under their gowns...
...early riser (6:45 in winter, 5:30 in summer), Dr. Keys eats a leisurely breakfast-half a grapefruit, dry cereal with skim milk, unbuttered toast, jam and coffee. Then, brown paper lunch bag on the seat beside him, he drives to work in a two-toned Karmann-Ghia. Although lunch is slim-a sardine sandwich, an olive, a cooky and a glass of skim milk-Keys eats with deliberate slowness. "I don't like to insult food," he says. Lunch done, he sits back, closes his eyes, and goes to sleep for exactly ten minutes in his office...
Students in the automated Houses reported that the slowness with which the mechanical cows filled glasses caused large jam-ups in the serving lines. An occasional beakdown, such as the one in Leverett when the machine forgot to shut itself off, also produced delays...