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...State Normal basketball game last month, the ballpark nest will be about ten feet above the ground, will give the base umpire a bird's-eye view of the infield. But Dumont's nest will be perched on a movable derrick, which, at the press of a button, will whisk the umpire to crucial spots...
...reporters and editors-Editor & Publisher obligingly published the figures-but the Army does not know where they are. The Army knows where lots of other professionals are: with its punched index cards, all the Army has to do is to pour cards into a machine and push a button: out comes a list of ex-cooks, ex-taxi drivers, or ex-engineers, as required. But not newsmen. Their talents had not seemed useful enough for separate classification. The thousands of them already in uniform were, so far as the Army was concerned, lost...
...manuscripts fill a well lit, spacious Exhibition Room, so arranged as to illustrate the spread of printing across Europe. On the other side of the Lobby is the Reading Room, open only to students. From here a ramp leads into the heart of Widener's stacks, but a push-button at the librarian's desk can shut the bridge off from ineligibles. Behind the librarian a book-elevator goes down the stacks...
...there the likeness ended. General Mitchell, extrovert and highly explosive, barged into obstacles with his head down. Introversive, highly diplomatic Air Secretary Lovett considers his adversaries carefully, always "pushing and squeezing," like a pilot flying a tight formation. Result is that he gets things done by pushing the right button instead of wrecking the keyboard...
Dona meets him while she is rusticating, away from it all, on her husband's Cornish estate. She is assisted in her intrigue by one of those button-mouthed little men-servants whose lines, always the wittiest in the play, terminate in a dry "my lady." With the pirate, Dona forgets her inept domesticity in a mischievous piratical foray against her dunderhead neighbors, and in the 17th-Century equivalent of a long weekend at Atlantic City...