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...year and had sold his shows to NBC for $1,000,000, he invested $50,000 in a small Manhattan chemical firm, the Fragrance Process Co. It was founded in 1952 by Alfred Neuwald, 64, a Hungarian-born chemist who used Barry's money to perfect a pellet to impregnate plastics with hundreds of different fragrances...
...anesthetized patient's neck to expose the main branching of the carotid artery, principal supplier of blood to the brain. At 15-minute intervals they inserted successively larger plastic emboli. All came to rest at the base of the malformation, reducing its blood supply. The last and biggest pellet lodged for a while in a wrong spot and threatened trouble, but eventually settled just where the doctors wanted it. Seven weeks after surgery, the patient could write legibly with her right hand, had no more speech difficulty...
...applied in the social sciences. Here a defense of Hugh O'Neil, the great Earl of Tyrone, ends in an explanation of Elizabethan expansion as the result of a price squeeze on the gentlemen of England. There Totem and Taboo is tabooed, with anthropological reasons. Here some pellet-counters thrash out the merits of the rat and the hamster as laboratory animals. There the probable next moves of the Rubber Workers Union are mapped...
...copper sheets intersecting in intricate ways. The theory looks so good that the three scientists are promising to deliver many million gauss of magnetic field, and to churn matter in ways that it has never been churned before. One possibility: a magnetic gun that can shoot a small pellet at 100,000 ft. per second. This is nearly three times the speed needed to shoot it wholly free of the earth's gravitation...
Never, it soon became evident, had so many been bilked of so much by a quarter-ounce pellet of lead...