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Though nature abhors the vacuum, businessmen have learned to regard it highly. By emptying air from sealed chambers to create a void, U.S. industry keeps the $16 billion electronics industry going, adds life to jet engines and makes the vitamins in cod liver oil easy to take. Sales of the machinery used to produce vacuums for industrial uses are growing 10% to 15% a year; awareness of the vacuum's almost limitless potential is growing even faster. Last week in Toronto this potential was probed at a meeting of physicists who specialize in working with vacuums. Though their esoteric...
Lampoon Hoaxes Through the Years. The on-again, off-again Harvard Lampoon has occasionally pulled off masterful pranks, from stealing the Massachusetts Sacred Cod to publishing parodics of the CRIMSON...
This competition may be only part of the story, McVity said. There is an increasing number of companies giving preference to sons and daughters of company employees. Also, in such places as Cape Cod, there is a growing animosity between local people and college students seeking employment, he said...
...Hara Cape Cod Lighters...
Daniel's son regards his father with an eye as cold as a Boston cod. Encouraged by his wife, he decides to pack the old man off to a Catholic rest home, Saint Vincent's Smiling Valley. Such plot as / Was Dancing has is concerned with Daniel's infinitely crafty efforts to discourage his son and to remain on in the house as a nonpaying guest. But Novelist O'Connor is less interested in plot than in the smoky tang of Irish talk and in the embalmment of a cast of characters as Stereotyped...