Word: junkheaps
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...Where Auto Defects Come From" [March 28]: And all this time we have been blaming poor old General Motors for the year-old junkheap parked in our drive. Blaming them for the stuck accelerator, which has given us such a hair-raising ride at least a dozen times (and which, of course, was "fixed" each time by their mechanic). Blaming them for the water that pours in each time it rains. (After the mechanic "fixed" the leak with at least a gallon of tar.) Even blaming them for the backfiring, running hot, the gear lever falling off, emergency brake handle...
...Henry Miller's Sexus ("The High Price of Zap"-June 25) suggests a possible rebuttal that might be called "The High Price of Pap." Henry Miller is one of the few people in our society who spend their lives trying to salvage living souls from the whirring junkheap of robothood. His books glitter with the joy of life, and they are capable of leading any halfway open-minded citizen to a point where he can deal with evil...
...Gulping down mounting returns, network computers giddily upped the odds on Kennedy. But the predictions only made Nixon Campaign Manager Len Hall huff that the computers ought to be tossed into the junkheap. The election, he claimed, was "a squeaker...
...despite such a vast collection of meaningless and unrelated curia including one of President Dunster's undershirts filed under "small things," Shipton maintains that he does not run Harvard's junkheap. He has steadfastly refused a pair of shoes invented and offered by a student in 1936. THE ANGLER
Chemist Duisberg had begun his own experiments with the creosote bush (Larrea divaricata), an acrid, sticky evergreen that thrives in millions of acres of drought-stricken wasteland. Last winter, using a distilling apparatus made from junkheap parts, Duisberg showed how to turn the hardy bush into a palatable stock feed.* With one byproduct already available to increase the margin of profit (nordihydroguaiaretic acid, a fat preservative that brings $35 a lb.), he managed to develop another: a quick-drying varnish that is almost certain to be salable. Other promising plants on Duisberg's list...