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...rides from it to the store. The buses lured customers back, but provided a slow and hot ride. Obediah thought of a subway. The Leonards acquired five old Washington, D.C., streetcars, spiffed them up with stainless steel and new seats, installed air conditioning, and carved a double-track tunnel between store and Jot: This week the M (for Marvin) & O (for Obediah) subway-"the first subway south of the Mason-Dixon line"-began service, delivering as many as 500 passengers every 3½ minutes to the store's basement. Price per ride: nothing...
...high pressure with which deep-sea divers and tunnel workers must contend has always been a source of danger, but now physicians and surgeons on both sides of the Atlantic are deliberately subjecting their patients to deep-sea pressures to save their lives. As testament to the success of this paradoxical treatment, "blue babies" are turning a healthy pink even before the end of operations. Seemingly hopeless cases of carbon monoxide poisoning and of gas gangrene (a deadly infection) are pulling through...
...hours later, Gridley slipped away, exhausted. He sat on a window sill debating with himself the best way to enter the Houghton stacks. There was the easy way, the tunnel from Widener, or he might go in by the front door and use the staff entrance in the Houghton first basement, that unobtrusive little door that leads to so much. "The tunnel's safer," he decided and searched for another key. Soon he had traversed an empty tunnel and let himself into Houghton's impregnable, immaculate catacombs. All was silence except for the air-conditioning system maintaining a constant temperature...
...opened it quickly and read: "Because of your flagrant disregard for circulation time limits and overdue book fines, the Library Committee has been compelled to suspend your reader's privileges in the coming term." For the second time that day Gridley smiled sardonically. He was thinking about the new tunnel he had found, the one that led to squash court 9 in Lowell House. He was still smiling when he loaded the 1516 New Testament of Erasmus with Holbein capitals into a Coop laundry bag and trudged back to his room...
When it opens full service on the 320-mile run between Tokyo and Osaka in 1964, the New Tokaido will be the world's fastest train. Bullet-shaped locomotives will whip 108 passenger trains daily over twelve miles of bridges, through 40 miles of tunnel and around gentle curves at speeds averaging 105 m.p.h. This is considered too fast for human engineers; computers will control the trains most of the way, with speeds and slowdowns for stops programmed on tape. Running time will be cut to three hours, from 6½ hours on the parallel Old Tokaido Line...