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...equality of the sexes combined with absolute celibacy, and simplicity and directness in all things. "Be hand-minded," she would urge. "Put your hands to work and your hearts to God." Soon there were 19 self-contained communities scattered through New England, New York, Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Every Shaker practiced a craft with particular diligence, producing everything except babies. They have now almost died out for lack of new recruits...
...Shakers at their height were sternly anti-esthetic, considering beauty a snare. Yet their interest to the world is emphatically esthetic. The Shaker Museum at Old Chatham, N.Y., founded just nine years ago in recognition of the Shakers' unique contribution to American culture, already gets close to 9,000 visitors a season, sends them away charmed by the clean, consecrated ingenuity of Shaker crafts. Some 8,000 objects, crammed into the museum's six sizable buildings, show that despite themselves the Shakers created and lived in beauty...
...methods is that he knows just how much poison a starling can take without dying, sprinkles it around while diverting onlookers' attention with his noisy toys. Starlings would not want to go back for more. Perhaps the aluminum tube around his neck is just a long salt shaker full of poisonous bird seed...
...Without the characteristic roar of blastoff, a Navy Polaris popped out of a large tube, impelled by compressed air in a device the Navy has installed at Canaveral to simulate the pitch and roll of a ship. Dubbed "the world's largest cocktail shaker," the $3,000,000 ship-motion simulator was held steady for this test, which concentrated on the compressed-air takeoff. It worked perfectly. The Polaris jumped silently to a point 60 ft. overhead where its first-stage engine came to life, and the missile left a long white trail behind as it took...
Gregory W. Dickerson '59, of Adams House and Norwich, Vt., Paul J. Eakin '59, of Adams House and Shaker Heights, Ohio, David W. Ehrenfeld '59, of Eliot House and Passaic, N.J., Elliott L. Elson '59, of Adams House and Ladue, Mo., David M. Evans '58, of Lowell House and Philadelphia, Pa., Martin J. Faigel '59, of Lowell House and Lawrence, Francis E. Fendell '59, of Leverett House and Brookline, John M. Ferren '59, of Kirkland House and Evanston, III., Thomas L. Fisher '59, of Adams House and Omaha, Neb., Robert R. Foster '59, of Kirkland House and Princeton, N.J., Daniel...