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...struck the political spark is balding Aime Forand, 64. One of 16 children born to a New England loom fixer, Aime Forand quit grade school to help support his blind father ("I know what it means to scratch"), went on to become a Democratic Congressman from Rhode Island. For 22 unspectacular years, Forand was barely noticed in Washington-until he suggested that the social security system be expanded to cover health insurance for the aged. Forand's plan: boost social security taxes ¼% for employees and ¼% for employers, use the funds to finance surgical costs...
Something for Survivors. To keep the veterans running, a special breed of geriatric mechanics has grown up in Latin America. They prowl every big city's junkyards (Santiago has ten sprawling "dismounting parks"), searching with a collector's eye for hard-to-find spark adjusters and planetary gears for their pet patients. Last week José Quiroz stood in the doorway of his Santiago garage and watched a 1930 Essex roll up. "There are no more made," he said, "but it's always possible to do a little something for the survivors." One handy Santiago cabbie took...
...election earlier this year. Last week, as Koreans asked why Chang had stayed silent and at home during the Seoul riots, his friends explained: "He would have liked to have been out in the streets to lead the students, but his presence might have been the spark that touched off an even bigger conflagration." It was an explanation characteristic of moderate, high-minded John Chang - and one that stirred doubts as to his capacity for leadership in the murderous rough-and-tumble of Korean politics...
...compensate for his slight, hollow-chested build (5 ft. 10 in., 160 Ibs.). Finsterwald's steady brand of play avoids the single bad round that can ruin aggressive players like Venturi and Palmer (who is Finsterwald's best friend on the circuit). "If Finsterwald ever gets that little extra spark needed to win," says Byron Nelson, "it will be difficult for anyone ever to beat...
...allowed to discharge as an open spark, this single shelf alone produces the electrical jolt of a smallish natural flash of lightning. When Zeus is finished and all its capacitors fire in unison, they will have roughly 100 times as much power. The discharge will flow for only a few microseconds. But while it flows, it will have twice the current of all the electric power generated on earth...