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...ancient Greeks, said Gold, were in rather the same fix when they tried to determine the shape of the earth. They could not see the earth as a whole and the details that they could see were confusingly irregular. But they fitted clues together and eventually decided (against common sense) that the earth is round...
...part of honest horse racing long before Crevolin. But to horsemen it seemed like a breach of faith to talk about such matters in public. Crevolin's careless attempt to explain away a few defeats only strengthened the smart-money boys' suspicions that now and then the fix might be on, that every entry in a race is not always "well meant." At Del Mar, where Crevolin's horses are now running, stewards called Crevolin on the carpet, sent a report to the California Horse Racing Board. In Chicago the Illinois Racing Board promptly started an investigation...
...Wolf of Man." U Nu is a man of rough and unfamiliar plainness. His head is round, his mouth seems rather large for his face, and his brown eyes fix visitors with peculiar intentness. His manner is sedate; his piety is apparent, and sincere. He betrays no concern that a Rangoon magazine is currently serializing a novel called Man the Wolf of Man (written in 1943) with a remarkable autobiographical preface by its author...
...postwar decade the do-it-yourself craze has become a national phenomenon. The once indispensable handyman who could fix a chair, hang a door or patch a concrete walk has been replaced by millions of amateur hobbyists who do all his work-and much more-in their spare time and find it wonderful fun. In the process they have turned do-it-yourself into the biggest of all U.S. hobbies and a booming $6 billion-a-year business. The hobbyists, who trudge out of stores with boards balanced on their shoulders, have also added a new phrase to retail jargon...
...much of its start from the war itself. During their service years, millions of Americans learned for the first time how to repair radios, engines and dozens of other machines. Housewives who had been punch-press operators, welders and electronics technicians found that it was no trick to fix a leaky faucet or paper a room, especially as it was hard to hire anyone to do it. Doing it herself was also less expensive, since the wages of carpenters and plumbers had jumped far higher than those of many other workers. Says one do-it-yourselfer: "A $1.25-an-hour...