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Gloria Swanson sleeps with a miniature pyramid under her bed because, she says, it makes "every cell in my body tingle." James Coburn, after he meditates inside his pyramid tent, puts his cat and her kittens to bed over a nest of tiny pyramids, on the theory that the kittens may grow up in a unique way. A Houston doctor put microbes under a pyramid and found that they lived 64 hours longer than ones not in a pyramid...
...York City, Max Toth, president of the Toth Pyramid Co., claims that his cardboard Pyramid Razor Blade Sharpener (price: $3.50) will more than pay for itself by producing blades that never dull. Evering Associates, which markets Toth's products in Canada, says they can be used to dehydrate tropical fish for display purposes. Small stuff, perhaps, but Inventor Patrick Flanagan, who sells his own pyramid line in Glendale, Calif., reports that the device has improved his sexual sensitivity...
Nonstop Munching. McDonald's statistical accomplishments are staggering. To illustrate: if all the 12 billion McDonald's hamburgers sold to date were to be stacked into one pile, they would form a pyramid 783 times the size of the one erected by Snefru. If a man ate a McDonald's hamburger every five minutes, it would take him 114,000 years of nonstop munching to consume 12 billion burgers. If all the cattle that have ever laid down their lives for McDonald's were to be resurrected for a reunion, they would stand flank-by-jowl...
...museum itself will be enclosed inside a seven-story glass pyramid. A crescent-shaped five story building will curve around three sides of the museum, housing the School of Government, the Institute, and over 12 million pages of documents from the kennedy Administration. Commonwealth Park, dedicated to the people of Massachusetts--who gave their land for the complex--will face the Charles River...
...monumental pyramid designed by I.M. Pei and largely financed by public contributions of $20 million, the library is supposed to house a museum, an archive, an institute of politics and two theaters that will show a short film on J.F.K. Residents fear that millions of tourists in their Winnebagos will be attracted to the already clogged streets of Harvard Square. The library will also put more strain on a city budget burdened with too many tax-exempt institutions. Blacks complain that rocketing real estate values may force them out of their neighborhoods...