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...have proposed spring-mounted bumpers and thicker doors, sealed side windows to keep arms and legs from flailing out in an accident. Detroit has already built test models with windshields slanted at a greater angle to forestall head damages, and with wrist-twist steering that uses a small, five-inch-diameter disk for each hand...
...jazz combo called the Upper Bohemians. But shortly after being discharged from the Army Air Corps in 1943, he signed up in Hans Hoffmann's painting classes. Rivers proved a hip but argumentative pupil. The canvas rectangle was then viewed as a neutral battleground whose every square inch must show the vital push and pull of his artistic struggle. How was it, Rivers wanted to know, that the greats of the past were good even in fragments...
Nine years ago Mary Tyler Moore was nothing, or more precisely, she was a two-inch pixy dancing in a Hotpoint stove ad. Then she got a job answering the phone for Richard Diamond, private eye. No one who saw her in the part will ever forget her, though he could not possibly remember her face. As sultry-voiced Sam, she was never seen above the thigh. And that shortskirted gam bit got her an audition for the part of Danny Thomas' daughter. She missed, but when Producer Thomas was looking for a wife for Van Dyke the next...
...respect for Churchill are dominated in the book by exasperation at a leader who did not always heed his right-hand man. "W. rang up in a rage because Bevan and Attlee had taken my view on how to handle De Gaulle. I didn't budge an inch." When Churchill frowned on an Eden proposal for a strong postwar France and hinted that the two of them "might be coming to a break," Eden decided that the old man was losing his balance...
Aristotle, but by the square inch some six times as costly...