Word: toole
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Rebel with Cause. The basic premise of Midcentury is that labor won privileges and power but the individual laborer lost his freedom. He merely exchanged bosses and became the tool of the union leaders. Like a panorama of the labor movement, the individual case histories unfold. Blackie Bowman is one of labor's gabby old soldiers. From the veterans' hospital bed on which he is dying, he does a flashback recall of his life as a seaman, a miner and a wobbly of the I.W.W. Mostly it is a schooling of hard knocks on his own skull, including...
...Europe Schirmbeck draws is fantastic, but only slightly more so than the real one. Germany is called Armagnac; Paris, Sybaris; everyone is spied on by an agency of the Western alliance called the Office of Strategic Information. Science is a weapon for soldiers, not a tool of philosophers. A power-warped rationalist named Elliot, who strongly resembles the villainous Gletkin in Koestler's Darkness at Noon, speculates with pleasure on "the electronics of the soul"-soon, he promises, cyberneticists will know enough about mechanical brains to control human nerve cells with ease. "We are moving," someone says, "toward...
...neutral nations: They should go one way or the other. They want to be on the side of the winner, and the U.S. can win their support, not by "foreign aid as a tool for peace," but by acting "as if we wanted to win the cold...
Last week, with three months' worth of successful beam-bending to back them up, Gallet and Professor Booker were considering the practical applications of their theory. In time, they believe, the bent beam may provide: 1) a new tool for studying the effect of solar eruptions on the earth's magnetic field; 2) a new method for long-range surveillance of missile activity behind the Iron Curtain; 3) jam-proof long-distance communications...
Gilbert helped pay his way through Yale by mystifying audiences with magic tricks, soon began making simple magic kits for students. When a department store began selling his kits, he set up the Mysto Manufacturing Co. in a New Haven tool shed and, after he received his M.D., went into business. He did not do well until he got the idea for the Erector set while absentmindedly watching a network of girders being erected for the electrification of the New Haven Railroad. He and his wife made the first set from cardboard parts. In 1916 he changed his firm...