Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...with Metrecal. One happy user of a similar supplement is Dallas' Specialty Store (Nieman-Marcus) Tycoon Stanley Marcus. "I've lost 15 pounds," says he, "several times." Marcus' specialty is "a kind of Spanish gazpacho soup." He mixes the dieting powder with cucumbers, tomato paste, ground-up peppers, tomatoes and curry powder...
...President Gordon McGregor's desire to increase the number of travelers by decreasing the cost of traveling, the team re-examined the entire airline cost structure. They concluded that since take-offs and landings are the most expensive part of every flight (heavy fuel consumption, airport fees, ground expenses), fares should not be calculated on a straight price-per-mile basis. Instead, statisticians worked out a new cost curve that drops as flights get longer. Thus, round-trip flights from Montreal to Vancouver, now $246, could be cut to as low as $182, while...
After suing A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, 48, for divorce on the ground of multiple adultery, Marjorie Steele Hartford, 31 and married to him for eleven years, was reported to be asking a world record $25 million property settlement. The exact amount is a court secret because a Manhattan judge decided that the case and Marjorie's accusations should not be aired in public. Last week, however, Marjorie's attorneys came out in the open to ask for temporary alimony, and that amount was enough to bug the eyeballs of even such a wealthy chap as Hartford...
...Homobonus, patron saint of tailors. Penetrating 20 ft. down, they came to a layer of rubbly soil which they recognized as the earth-fill foundation of Roman temples of Mater Mututa, goddess of childbirth, and Fortuna, protectress of women who have been married only once. In this hallowed ground they found twelve fragments of dark brown pottery decorated with incised dots and geometrical figures...
...none of the chapters in the book rise above the level of applied science. About the only novel idea is highways with cables carrying high-frequency current under their pavement. The electric field surrounding the cable, says Engineer U. A. Dolmatovsky, will hold automobiles out of contact with the ground and at the same time propel them forward at 150 m.p.h. There will be no accidents no matter how heavy the traffic, because automatically guided cars are free of human error. Such high-speed cars will operate only on main highways. Inside cities says Dolmatovsky, the citizens will use slower...