Word: socklessness
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...Einstein, our most revered symbol of genius. We've all grown up with the vision of the humble patent examiner who overturned physics, with his corona of white hair and the sad deep eyes that have seen further than you can look. In our minds he floats like a sockless tumbleweed above the grit of mundane life. Behind the face we all recognize is a man we do not know...
...assist in divination, game companies bring in packs of sockless teen-agers to play prototypes, and hire as consultants professors of almost anything?engineering, psychology computer science, possibly even medieval French literature. At Bally, three teams of about 25 engineers, artists, computer programmers and game developers work on translating ideas into intricate microchip circuitry. One project started three years ago in Bally's Midway division as a black-and-white game called Catch 40. A little man ran back and forth trying to catch falling objects on his head. As the game progressed, the objects fell faster and faster. Early...
...careers. His persona and pronouncements became legends. Asked why he used one soap for washing as well as shaving, he replied, "Two soaps? That is too complicated." Even when receiving visitors like David Ben-Gurion (who later offered him the presidency of Israel), Einstein often would be tieless and sockless. Recalls Physicist-Biographer Banesh Hoffmann, who worked with Einstein: "He never tried to show you how clever he was. He always made you feel comfortable...
...serve as board chairman. Vittert set up shop in a windowless cubicle, recruited five staff members and began searching for clients, traveling around the country on cut-rate "youth-fare" plane tickets. At first his selling efforts met only rebuffs; middle managers noted Vittert's youth, then his sockless ankles, and instantly turned him down. Undaunted, he finessed the cadres of "no" men by telephoning top executives at home to ask for an interview. A major oil company hired his firm to recruit applicants for its credit cards among college students over...
...Harvard, going sockless is to the "preppy-clubby" set what the armless sweatshirt is to the athletic crowd. Northwestern Student Leader Skip Mylenski wouldn't have thought of attending the homecoming dance at Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel any way but bare-ankled. Columbia University students skip the hose for Manhattan theater dates, and at Berkeley, when Theta Delta Chi threw a party, nearly all of the brothers turned up sockless. Maintains Theta Delt David Greenlee, 20: "When you walk down Telegraph among all the beatniks, and you're wearing a pullover sweater and Daks...