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Razor Blades. Nevertheless, as the mathemagician admits, "not all my readers are fans. I have also managed to provoke some outspoken enemies." In the forefront are the credulous victims of Gardner's recent hoaxes: an elaborate treatise that demonstrated the power of pyramid-shaped structures to preserve life and sharpen razor blades, and "proof by a fictional Dr. Matrix that the millionth digit of π-if it were ever computed, would be the number 5. Even angrier are those occultivated believers in extrasensory perception and faith healing. From the beginning of his career, Gardner has been illuminating the dark...
...steelworker, he hadn't been back to work since. Instead, he padded around the house in his bathrobe and a pair of worn argyle socks each day, getting dressed on Thursdays to pick up his unemployment check. He watched people winning thousands of dollars on "The $10,000 Pyramid" and "Hollywood Squares," rearranged the living room furniture with his wife a few times, and generally would have been more relaxed than he ever imagined he could be, had he known where his meals would be coming from a few months hence...
...they plunge toward earth -making them even more difficult to intercept. The U.S. has already MIRVed a good number of its missiles and hopes eventually to MARV others. To help meet the threat of Soviet MIR vs now being deployed, the Pentagon has ordered major "rewiring" of both the pyramid-shaped nerve center of the Safeguard anti-missile system in North Dakota and the North American Air Defense Command's Cheyenne Mountain headquarters in Colorado, which keeps track of every man-made object in space (3,269 at last count...
Recession's first victims are always at the lower end of the labor pyramid: the blue-collar worker, office staff and sales help. But the current slump is painfully hitting corporate managers and administrators, who in the past were relatively immune from layoffs. In January unemployment among managers hit the highest point in more than 15 years. Two typical examples...
...December, the Lowthers' pyramid started falling apart. In an apparent attempt to gain another base for securing grant money, Lowther tried to take over tiny (445 students) Prescott College, an experimental school in Arizona. The college was $440,000 in debt and on the verge of bankruptcy. Thus, when Lowther agreed to pay the school's operating costs in return for control of its board and operating capital, the college thought it had found a savior and tentatively agreed to the deal. But soon $105,000 in foundation checks to the college bounced, and-for the first time...