Word: razors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Football's College All-Stars bounced into Chicago's Soldier Field last week with a herd of the swiftest, smartest players in years. Almost all were high on the professional league's draft lists. All were razor-keen after three hard weeks training under old Pro Coach Curley Lambeau. Their high hope: to pass the champion New York Giants silly and wow their new pro employers. Then it began to rain, rain, rain down through the stadium lights, and 75,000 spectators saw the rookies' annual blooding work toward a familiar ending...
...materials were certainly simple enough-a piece of baling wire, a razor blade, some copper foil. But, explained a distinguished M.I.T. physicist one day last week, they were just about all that any schoolboy would need to build himself a device that could measure the amount of silver deposited in electroplating. In another room in M.I.T.'s sprawling Building 2, a colleague toyed with a tray of marbles to demonstrate molecular action. Near by, another scientist was making a telescope out of cheap lenses, curtain rings, a cardboard cylinder, and some pieces of hose from a truck radiator...
...Snap & a Taillight. The baling-wire-and-razor experiments are part of a do-it-yourself program intended to find ways to contrive laboratory equipment from cheap and available materials. The doo-dlers have already produced a strobe unit -a simple optical device for cutting up motion into a series of split-second visual pictures-out of two tongue depressors, the flat top of a tin can, a woman's dress snap and a piece of baling wire. A way of demonstrating wave mechanics was developed by shining an automobile taillight through a window frame of agitated water...
...reasoning used by the makers of the first atomic bomb. "Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night," he says, "and wonder whether I am doing good or not. Then I comfort myself with the thought that Gillette was a man who made a wonderful safety razor that enabled one to shave without cutting one's throat. It is not Mr. Gillette's fault if people take the blade out of the razor and cut their wrists with...
...known specialist in social disorders who made On the Waterfront and Baby Doll and has directed three of Tennessee Williams' plays. Unhappily Kazan does not seem to know the first thing about a satiric operation. As Lady Mary Wortley Montagu explained the technique: "Satire should, like a polished razor keen/ Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen." She also described Kazan's method: "Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews;/ The rage, but not the talent, to abuse...