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Usually, however, M.I.T. pranks have a more scientific twist. A few years ago when Massachusetts Ave. was being re-paved, one of the workmen left his steam-roller parked overnight along the curb. As a precaution, he dismantled certain key parts of the motor and piled them up on the seat. But he underestimated the M.I.T. man's ingenuity. The steamroller was soon restored to running condition and was found next morning at Harvard in President Conant's front yard...
...backwoods Bavarian town of Selb one day last week, white-aproned workmen finished wrapping 3, 670 dishes fit for a king. They were the first of four shipments of a 14,680-piece, $113,000 dinner service for Saudi Arabia's King Saud. The manufacturer: West Germany's Rosenthal, the world's No. 1 porcelain maker...
...tower's troubles date back almost to the day the designs were finished by the late, famed Architect Perret. In digging the foundations, workmen uncovered a subterranean river, which had to be diverted from its course. As work progressed it turned out that the city water pressure was too low to force water above the 20th story. Then someone figured out that the building's two seven-passenger elevators would take nearly two hours to get the building's 350 prospective tenants to work...
...permanent need to resort to bottled liquids for water will be taken temporarily from a different pipe until this one can be repaired. This may however, take several days. At present, despite much open air bureaucracy, engineers are trying to determine the exact location of the break, while workmen continually dig. The search is complicated by high tension wires underground near the break, and "Those things can kill...
Everywhere that industry grew, the managers studied how to pull all the far-flung parts together and make them work more efficiently-so that, in effect, shareholders, executives and workmen would get increasing return from an hour's productive work. And what they studied hardest was the amazing efficiency of General Motors and how it had achieved...