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Modern Living. In Vienna, after touring Europe for a year inside a big glass bottle, Stunt Man Rudolf Schmied climbed out, told reporters that he had lost 60 Ibs., but "there is little difference between life inside and outside the bottle...
...Brando fans prophesied that their erratic hero was having one of his passing romances. But last week the young actor, to all appearances a resolutely changed man, returned from France on the liner United States. Asked by waiting newsmen about his intentions, he snapped: "It is not a publicity stunt, and I do intend to marry the girl ... in the summer." He bridled at a question about the difference between foreign and American girls: "In choosing a wife, I don't think it's important to question her nationality, providing she's not Joe Stalin...
...increasing the Lorentz contraction. Once he hitched his undulator to a large linear accelerator that sent out electrons at 100 million electron volts. From the business end came a beam of blue light. He had actually generated "radio waves" that were short enough to qualify as visible light. This stunt proved that the stubborn gap in the spectrum has been closed, but it is hardly practical. There are better ways of generating the waves of light and heat...
...Prescott is the first to weigh the growth of individual amoebas, but he is not tending his microscopic livestock as a mere stunt. He has already discovered something new: that amoebas generally grow for about 20 hours. Then for the next four hours before they divide, their weight does not increase. This scrap of information, gathered so laboriously, is considered important in the study of cellular growth, including the growth of cancer cells in the human body...
...time Hays pulled his stunt, the committee's Assistant Research Director Thomas McNiece was on the stand trying to prove that the foundations had been backing a planned American economy...