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...Harvard to experiment in possible techniques. For example, six-year-olds cannot see several aspects of one phenomenon. They assume that one car is going faster than another because it reaches a goal first. It may really have started closer to the target, and Psychologist Inhelder will use toy cars to demonstrate. "There may be a rule that the exercise of a function leads to its further development," suggests Bruner...
Like any new toy, stereo at first appealed largely to only a narrow group. The early stereo owner was the status-conscious fellow in the neighborhood-he already had a Mercedes or didn't quite have the cash for one. In the wellappointed bachelor apartment, the stereo rig replaced the traditional etchings as a lure for the nubile. His costly equipment consisted of two speakers, two amplifiers, a special cartridge for his record player, as well as an assortment of optional gear. His stereo library was comprised mainly of trick noises and demonstration records -drum recitals, incoming tides...
Lenore Jensen grew up surrounded by sureshot kin, practiced marksmanship as a tot. "When Lenore was two," recalls her mother, "she carried a toy rifle around with her. She'd sprawl out on the living room floor, and people would laugh and say, 'Look at that. Perfect prone position.' " Her father, who died when Lenore was eleven, was a topflight competitive marksman; her mother has been firing smallbore rifles for 24 years, last year won the National Women's Any Sight Championship. Stepfather Marvin Driver is a crack pistol shot and longtime director of the National...
...American general to invade Europe when he led his joist Airborne Division on the jump into Normandy. Taylor struggled out of his chute harness and found himself surrounded by mildly curious cows. For 20 minutes, Taylor hunted frantically for his division. Finally he heard the click-click of the toy cricket that his paratroopers used to signal in the darkness. Taylor click-clicked back, jumped over a hedge and hugged a 101st G.I.-"the finest, most beautiful American soldier I've ever seen. A fine private with his bayonet fixed...
Wandering about town for a week before his broadcast, Sahl ritually shopped for his daily toy (a $25 Mont Blanc pen, a $5,000 E-type Jaguar), once went out at 3 a.m. into the grey vacuum of the London night just to have a look at the outsized eagle atop the new U.S. embassy in Grosvenor Square. Then, taping his show before an audience full of political rebels and comedians (Lord Boothby, Peter Sellers), Sahl warmed them up with a note on his visit to the House of Commons ("I thought the debates were a little mannered...