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...climbs into, snaps up a swank restaurant because his date likes to eat there, impulsively flies to Europe and hops right back with a grand collection of German expressionist art, finally shakes up the entire U.S. economy by promoting a more or less mythical company known as Universal Widget. Why? Why, because he is plumb crazy about a shapely security analyst, Lee Remick. Why else...
...years ago, when a fast-breaking, aggressive team of Soviet basketbolisty walloped a U.S. quintet 62-37 in a world amateur tournament in Santiago, Chile, Communists everywhere hailed it as another landmark in Khrushchev's campaign to overtake the U.S. in everything from meat production to widget manufacture. "When it comes to shooting at the moon or at the basket, the U.S. cannot keep up with Russia," trumpeted a leftist Chilean paper. "We won," declared Russian Coach Stepan Spandarian loftily, "because we did what we planned...
...medicine becoming increasingly technical, some doctors dream of a day when an electronic brain might take the place of the physician in diagnosing obscure ills. Last week Dr. Winston H. Price told colleagues in the Johns Hopkins Medical Society of some toddling first steps toward developing such a wonderful widget...
...Perfect 36. Edna Chase herself was hardly elegant or beautiful. She got her job at 18, addressing envelopes for $10 a week-"a factotum, a kind of little widget, young, eager and ignorant. I think I was not an unattractive young woman . . . but the only permissible bust measurement, the perfect 36, I did not possess...
Someday we shall pause to wonder what all the big rush is about anyway. People will realize that happiness is after all the end of human existence. And then perhaps someone will ask, "Which contributes more to human happiness, a widget, or a great drama...