Word: traps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gell-Mann compares the work of physics to cleaning out a cluttered basement. "Once the debris has been swept away," he says, "the basement's outline can be seen." This always happens in physics, but there is one hitch: "Somebody has discovered over in a corner a trap door, leading to a subbasement. First we had to learn about atoms, but when we got atoms cleared up, we found a trap door to the next subbasement, the atomic nucleus, which was then completely unknown. Now that this is being swept out a bit, the next trap door leads us into...
...Cheese. The Russian offer was little more than a tempting bit of cheese on the treadle of a Communist trap. A smelter would give employment to only 100 workers. It would force Bolivia to import large quantities of costly British coke to refine its relatively low-grade (30%) ore. It would put Bolivia in competition with the international tin cartel, thousands of expensive miles from potential markets. Bolivia would have to accept platoons of Soviet "technicians" and go through with the first Russo-Bolivian exchange of diplomats in history...
Many foreign students argue that the exams are unfair, claim they include subtly worded, semantic-trap questions that would be tricky even for a native-born American. Critics also insist that the A.M.A. purposely makes the exams tough to maintain a monopoly for U.S. doctors -a charge the A.M.A. hotly denies...
...World War II cost $6,700 a room; the Pittsburgh Hilton, finished late last year, cost $12,500 a room), Tabler says that unnecessary expenses due to obsolete building codes "can break a hotel." Older cities are not always the most backward. Dallas refused to accept a bathtub drain trap that Boston had accepted about 50 years ago. Tabler did battle, got the code updated, saved $15,000 on that one change alone...
...setting for most of leading lady Brigitte Bardot's amateur detectivisms is a rattle-trap French dance hall run by a blackmailer, who unknown to Miss Bardot has got the drop on her husband. The husband, played by Henri Vidal, has just stormed into the establishment to try to get himself off the hook, when the black-mailer-owner is murdered. The inevitable "innocent bystandars," none of whom, as Miss Bardot later discovers in her quest for information on the crime, are particularly innocent, witness Vidal's entrance, call the police, and set off the fireworks...