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...that once they fall asleep they don't move, Dr. Kleitman is emphatic: "No normal person sleeps 'like a log.' " Anyone gets uncomfortable from staying in one position while asleep, just as he would while awake. To check this, his University of Chicago researchers rigged up Rube Goldberg devices to bedsprings and got electrical recordings of sleepers' tossing and turning. The average: 20 to 60 major movements during a night's sleep...
...maniac." When Flo suggests a night out, Andy concurs: "If yer get 'ome before me, leave the lights on." But his long-suffering mate wouldn't change him for the world. "Don't think I 'aven't tried it, Rube," she says to a friend. "But bein' away from 'im is almost as miserable as bein' with...
...Milwaukee Braves Pitcher Warren Spahn, slipping a fast ball past Los Angeles Relief Pitcher Bob Miller, got his 2,382nd strikeout, setting a new major-league record for a lefthander. The old record, held by Rube Waddell, had stood since 1910. Spahn went on to post his 14th win of the season, against only five losses. "You always think about records being set with a big, dramatic act," he said afterward. "Instead, I get the pitcher on a called strike. But I'll take it." Other records he has taken: more wins (341), more shutouts (56), more 20-game...
When he pitched in exhibition games for the old Philadelphia Athletics and the St. Louis Browns, the late Rube Waddell occasionally waved his fielders to the bench and tried to strike out the side. It was a sensational stunt, but Eddie Feigner, the Rube Waddell of softball, puts on a similar display of prowess in every inning of every game he pitches...
...assault on traditional farming methods already seem outdated compared to the latest contraptions. On the campus of the University of California's College of Agricultural Engineering at Davis, the wildly inventive center of the farm-machinery revolution, a group of scientists and engineers are turning out automated Rube Goldberg devices faster than farmers can learn how to use them. Among the latest...