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...tiny telltale mushroom cloud of ruby-red dust boils up under a spooky cone of light. Robin Parkinson's sonically activated Toy-Pet-Plexi-Ball is a sparkling basketball-sized plastic sphere that rolls kittenishly away every time the viewer claps his hands together. Ingeniously combining a blower and a vibrator, Engineer Niels O. Young flings an 80-ft.-long loop of tape soaring out into graceful swirls in his mechanized Fakir in 3/4 Time...
...Fullback Ken O'Connell took the opening kick-off down to the Bucknell 35. Two plays later halfback Ray Horn-blower flicked an option pass to Gatto who scampered to the 17. A piling-on penalty moved the ball to the nine. Tommy Wynne came in for a field goal when the Harvard attack faltered...
That impressive test was part of a program sponsored by the Air Transport Association to clear the fog from the nation's airports. Known as a Fog-Sweep, the big machine is actually a mobile blower with a 100-ft. flexible plastic tube that pops up, jack-in-the-box style, once its fan starts whirling. Out of the tube comes a spray of chemicals that are close kin to ordinary household detergents. And 70% of the time, they can "wash" away enough fog to let planes fly in and out of closed-down airports...
Should he hear a disk jockey he doesn't dig, Drake gets on the blower (he has 21 phones around the house, including one in each of the five bathrooms...
...unless you want to be something helpful, like a doctor, or a dentist, or a veterinarian, or an osteopath, or an optometrist, or a chiropodist, or a minister, or a research scientist. Or, you can be something else helpful, like a farmer, or an apprentice riveter, or a glass-blower, or the Vice President of the United States. The Selective Service makes the rules: how sick you can be, how crazy, how tall, how immoral, how ignorant, how conscientious...