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...middle-class whites back to the city, where they can get away from auto dependence. Suburban sprawl could be correspondingly contained. At minimum, businesses would have to plan factory and office locations differently; no longer could a company plop a plant or office complex in an area without public transportation, blithely confident that a work force would roll up to its doors in a fleet of cars...
...Caroline worked on a documentary on coal miners in Tennessee. John-John went on a bicycle trip. After a tiresome round of yachting, shopping and dodging photographers, Jacqueline Onassis ended up on Skorpios, her private Greek island. She climbed on her water skis, scooted across the water and went plop. But, then, even Jackie has her ups and downs...
...form the Crimson beat Yale and I, despite all my wisdom, once again proved to be a particularly lousy predicter. Not only did it top the Elis for the first time in a decade and make IAB history by winning for the first time since the white elephant landed, plop, in the middle of Cambridge, but it embarrassed the Yalies all afternoon. As it piled up what had to be the highest point total the Elis have ever given up, I couldn't help but think what a remarkable switch Don Gambril has engineered in just two short years...
...more than two weeks the click and plop of expertly cued balls echoed off the ceiling. Squinting, stretching, chalking, the players met each other twice in round-robin competition for the $5,000 first prize. Each game was standard "14.1 ball": 15 colored target balls are set on the table and the players take turns using a white cue ball to knock them into any pockets they choose. Each contestant can continue shooting as long as he keeps pocketing the target balls, which are replenished when only one of them remains. Each time a player fails to pocket a ball...
Electronic Mud. One of the most popular exhibits is Robert Rauschenberg's Mud Muse. It is a tank filled with sloppy, coffee-colored drillers' mud supplied from one of Teledyne's offshore oil rigs. Pipes in the floor of the tank emit air bubbles, which plop to the surface at random with a kind of lazy flatulence. The pipes in turn are controlled by an elaborate electronics system, which converts signals from taped music and random noise in the room into a pattern of air release. "I think," says Rauschenberg, "you immediately get involved with Mud Muse...