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...fourth-grader, Robert made one of his infrequent trips to the playground. A child threw a ball out of the lot, and the school director admonished the youngsters, telling them they might have injured a passerby. Robert immediately calculated the probable force with which the ball had struck the sidewalk, demonstrating that its velocity could not have hurt anyone. In high school, he learned calculus. He became interested in Greek, and within three months could read Sophocles without a dictionary...
...faintly lit West Berlin sidestreet, a man sat behind the wheel of a dark sedan, waiting. A pretty girl carrying two bottles of Coca Cola crossed the sidewalk, glanced back at the sedan before letting herself into the house at 11 Heilbronner Strasse. The heavy, wrought-iron door clashed behind her, and she started up the narrow stairs. Above her there was a sudden sound of thudding feet and labored breathing. At the top of the stairs, a man appeared carrying the limp body of an elderly, bald-headed man. Behind him was a man she knew well-43-year...
When Melvin Eugene Hewitt got into a brawl outside a Long Beach (Calif.) bar 2½ years ago, nothing was further from his mind than a contribution to medical research. But in his misfortune he made one. After he banged his head on a car and hit the sidewalk, Hewitt's heart stopped, and it was 15 minutes before doctors could restart it by massage. It seemed unlikely that Hewitt could live after such a long stoppage of circulation to the brain. Hewitt surprised his doctors...
Child-Saver. A portable traffic light that can be set up in the center of the street and operated from the sidewalk has been developed by J. R. Vissing, a Jeffersonville, Ind. garageman. The 4-ft.-high, battery-powered light is primarily for school crossings...
...better of a girl who lives stubbornly by whim and base instinct. The more Pierre tries to discipline Xaviere, the more apt she is to turn up at the wrong place at the wrong time, or to keep an appointment for an intellectual talk at a sidewalk cafe loaded down with a bag of shrimp and bananas...