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...heart of Sherwood Forest, sober-sided Harold Macmillan, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, took corona in mouth and bow in hand, tried to hit a short-range bull's-eye with a suction-cupped arrow in an attempt to promote the sale of his brain child, a savings bond that pays no interest, but offers investors a chance to win ?1,000-a financial stratagem known to Britons as "having a flutter on Harold." Nobody's archery was good enough to win the prize-one ?1 bond. Southpaw Archer Macmillan, perhaps with sporting intent, missed the target...
Natural Barrier. Lake trout, for many years the richest catch of Canadian and U.S. fisheries in the Great Lakes, have no such defense against the Dracula-like lamprey. The bloodthirsty parasite, usually about 18 inches long, clamps its suction snout onto a fish, drills a hole through the scales with its tongue and multiple rows of sharp teeth, and clings tenaciously, draining the host's body juices until it is satiated, or the fish dies...
...bait advertisers calculate that one housewife in three will buy the high-priced model, the pattern is repeated daily in thousands of U.S. homes. In Seattle, vacuum cleaners are popular bait. Radio station KOL advertised a rebuilt vacuum cleaner for $8.95, but a demonstration showed that it lacked the suction to extinguish a match, and the salesman switched to a $120 cleaner...
...thirtieth of a second three of the forward seats, one of them with a passenger, moved upward toward the break in the roof. The next row of seats followed close behind. As the "suction wave" raced down the cabin, passengers and seats flew out into space. In two seconds, the scientists figured, the cabin of Yoke Peter must have been empty...
...matter how mundane his advice may sometimes sound, Dr. Peale always returns to the need for prayer-and "prayers that have plenty of suction." To Dr. Peale, "prayer is a sending out of vibrations . . . In our brains we have about two billion little storage batteries. The human brain can send off power by thoughts and prayers." The big rule is "1) PRAYERIZE, 2) PICTURIZE, 3) ACTUALIZE." Much of the book's advice falls under a fourth possible heading, PASTEURIZE, e.g., "A mind free of negatives [will] produce positives, that is to say, a clean mind will deliver power...