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...newsmen and Dan Gainey, Minnesota jewelry manufacturer who backed Harold Stassen in 1948 and 1952 but has grown increasingly cool toward Childe Harold. No sooner had Nixon left his car for the block-long walk to the Exposition Grotto than a crowd began to gather. Nixon showed all the pump-handle efficiency of an Estes Kefauver in shaking hands with cab drivers, tourists, shopkeepers, cops, and everyone else he could reach...
...Mighty. In Oxford, England, Mrs. Marion Crabtree was put on two years' probation after the constable who stopped her for riding her bicycle on the sidewalk testified that she whacked him with her cycle pump, hit him with her fists, finally threw the bicycle...
...Grosse Pointe, caught a lightning bolt on her masthead. The charge knocked out the radio and most of the electrical system, swirled the compass haywire. Worst of all, it fused together a generous supply of beer cans cooling in the bilge, and for hours afterward, the bilge pump produced beer on tap. The unnerved crew grabbed for the cans that survived, and broke open the emergency supply of hard stuff. "By the time we got to Mackinac." said one with a satisfied belch, "we were all pretty loaded...
Applied research also turns up rich and diversified rewards. Chrysler Corp.'s research in hydraulic pumps for cars resulted in a hospital pump that delivers liquefied natural food directly to a post-operative patient's stomach, eliminating the need for intravenous feeding in many cases. General Motors' development of a sensitive device to test automotive parts yielded an electronic "stethoscope" for doctors...
...shoes situation. The basement leaked for months without his taking any interest in it. Then, happily, one day during a strenuous spring thaw, it flooded to a depth of six inches. That was sufficient crisis to engage him. He sprang into action and within an hour a sump pump was making the house throb like an ocean liner...