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...Idea. In Dearborn, Mich., Mayor Orville Hubbard ordered his department heads to lock themselves in their offices for half an hour each morning, take a pencil and paper and "jot down any hot ideas . . . That is the way Newton discovered the law of gravity...
BELL Telephone Laboratories, Inc. has installed an experimental booth in Boston's South Station that has no conventional instrument -just a speaker and small microphone recessed in the wall, leaving a caller's hands free to jot down notes...
...Harvard student. At each five yard stripe he would reach down, pluck twice apparently at blades of grass, then hold his hand extended up in the air. He would not look up at his extended hand. However, when he brought his hand down he would look at it and jot down with pencil and paper his findings. He did this the entire length of the field and then reversed it, going back up the field, stopping at each five yard stripe and going through the same proceedings. He only did this on one side of the field to my knowledge...
...their jobs. The rumors buzzed like hornets: the school was closing, staff cuts coming, pay slashes ahead. In desperation two months ago, Miller put up his outhouse, labeled it Rumor Factory, and asked everybody to look at two bulletin boards inside. One board was labeled "rumors"-anyone could jot down his favorite; the other was labeled "fact," and there Miller answered every question...
...counterpoint, the Times's homegrown Russian experts wrote that Russia has not abated her "Hate America" cam paign one jot. The net effect, however, was to give Stalin's answers a sense of importance far beyond their value...