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Wooing the Women. Sol Kittay changed all that. He cut production to four lines of shorts and undershirts, including T shirts, whose postwar popularity among men has overcome the losses of the Gable days. Everything else he assigned to licensees. He even found a buyer for waste lint. ("Now who would think," he asks, "that you could sell lint?") To simplify ordering and to expand sales, Kittay used the supermarket device of packaging his products in sets of three, put them out on big, bright store racks to catch the eyes of women shoppers...
...clear aloft, added Nikolayev, that he could see the main streets of cities on earth; at times, he added, moonlight flooded into his cabin, illuminating the switches before him. Popovich said that each time he finished eating, he switched on a vacuum cleaner to clear away the lint from his paper napkin that hung weightless in the cabin. In a personal experiment with weightlessness, Popovich said that he had carried a bottle half full of water aloft with him. The water gathered about both ends of the bottle "and the air collected in the middle in a little sphere...
...technique extends to one-billionth of a gram. It is a marvel at detecting the presence of poison, easily spotting a thimbleful dissolved in ten tank cars of water. Neutron analysis can get along with specimens far smaller than those needed for conventional chemical analysis: a fragment of lint, a strand of hair, a fleck of paint will suffice. Happily, the radioactivity caused by the neutrons soon dies down, and once studied, the evidence can safely be brought into a courtroom...
...most certainly is. In Texas the U.S. has a state which produces four times as much cotton lint as any place else around (4,308,000 bales in 1958); the Ohio River is spanned by the largest Simple Truss Bridge anywhere--the Metropolis Bridge has a main span of some 720 feet! Or take a camera to Oklahoma on September 16, for the colorful Indian ceremony known jocularly as "Cherokee Strip...
...evening's redeeming feature were the compositions themselves. A composer can weave simple musical threads into a dazzling fabric or unravel good broad-cloth until it is lint. Bach and Mozart chose to weave simple tunes into golden cloth...