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...Meany's unions could well revise their work rules. His Plumbers and Pipefitters require two pipefitters and a welder to hook up the piping on a steam trap about the size of a breadbox. If American farmers worked the same way, there would be 20 men on a combine and wheat would be $10 a bushel...
...designed in 1929 at Paimio, in southern Finland's pine forests. Aalto considered how each occupant, from the director on down, not only would use the building but also might feel about it. The janitor, he decided, should have his own closet, not just an impersonal clothes hook. When it came to the hospital rooms, Aalto put himself in the place of the patients. The result: designs for windows that would admit fresh air but not drafts, wash basins that would not splash, and chairs of resilient wood so that convalescents would not touch cold steel frames...
Many contributors had ideas for new kinds of vehicles: a personal trolley-auto advocated by Ronald Uher of Crystal Lake, Ill., for example, could either hook up to overhead electric trolley lines or run on its own power. Other suggestions focused on improving mass-transit finances. Several people proposed that municipal buses, trolleys and subway cars earn additional Income by hauling freight in off-hours. To produce perhaps $1.5 million in annual revenues, Benjamin Lawless of Washington, D.C., urged that a grain crop be grown on the 5 million acres of federal land bordering the interstate highways. Then there...
...Philadelphia gym for a Sept. 30 bout with Muhammad Ali. "But he keeps finding excuses to get down here and put gloves on." Marvis, a ninth-grader who stands an inch and a half taller than his father and has a longer reach, worries about his weak left hook. Still, he is considering a pro career in the ring. Promises Papa: "If he did decide to get into it, he would have the best trainers in the world. And he wouldn't have to worry about getting a fair shake...
...minimums. The arcs of lightning, terrifying to many air travelers, caused little concern among the air-wise. Lightning slips routinely off the skins of modern air: craft, rarely impairing vital controls or igniting the well-protected fuel tanks. J.F.K.'s radar picked up the thunderstorm's ominous hook-shaped rain cells. Rain itself poses no unusual problem for pilots. Yet real dangers lurked invisibly in this storm's particular pattern of high and erratically shifting winds. The airport control tower's landing logs and later explanations by pilots documented the elusive perils...