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Inch by inch the aerial thief descends to cop the swag. Second by second the suspense intensifies. If the rope slips, if a tool falls, if so much as a large bead of sweat drops off the burglar's brow and lands on the pressure-sensitive floor, the impact will inevitably stimulate tiny electronic centers and trip the general alarm...
...Family. Wilson won scientific credentials aplenty - a B.S. from M.I.T. (1916), an M.I.T. associate professorship in chemical engineering, 90 patents for petrochemical inventions, 120 scientific papers. But even more winning was his impact on other men. Presenting him with the Society of Chemical Industry's Perkin Medal in 1943, American Chemical Society President Thomas Midgley Jr. couldn't help recalling an 1895 picnic in Beaver Falls, Pa., where both he and Wilson were born. Midgley was being bullied by a gang of "incipient hoodlums." Up came Mrs. Wilson with two-year-old Bobby. "Kick the naughty boys," commanded...
Blocked Vision. The French island of Guadeloupe took the first serious impact of Cleo's winds. There, the capital of Basse Terre suffered hundreds of demolished homes, and the hurricane devastated sugar and banana plantations, and left 14 dead. Bypassing Puerto Rico, Cleo next moved into Haiti, where the port city of Les Cayes was practically leveled, and 124 Haitian lives were lost...
...impact of First Ladies on U.S. history has never been particularly resounding, but all have contributed fascinating footnotes...
...pipelines, says Joseph C. Swidler, chairman of the Federal Power Com mission, have had "a revolutionary impact on our economy." The revolution started in World War II to thwart tanker-hunting U-boats; the Big Inch and the Little Inch, from Texas to the Atlantic Coast, were the first major lines. Since then, pipelines have grown so fast that they now transport more than 30% of all the energy used in the U.S. They have created a revolution >n home-heating and cooking, provided cheaper industrial power and, less happily, caused severe wrenches in existing coal and oil industries. Twenty...