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...expert, Ichthyologist Herbert Axelrod, puts the proper aquarium proportion at two gallons of salt water to an inch of fish-a limit of five 2-in. fish in a 20-gal. tank. Sea horses-such improbable creatures that many people think them mythical-are less active and need less tank space; so slow are they, in fact, that they must be segregated from most other fish, or they will starve to death...
...heat from five miles away - or spy out a distant rocket - and a humidity register so sensitive that it knows when a teaspoonful of water is brought into a room. It took a Honeywell gyroscope to measure the Empire State Building's maximum sway (onequarter inch) and bury forever the tourist canard that the world's tallest building rocks in a high wind. Eye examinations will eventually be more comfortable because of a Honeywell device that measures eyeball pressure with a quick and painless puff...
Well, let's see. Your fish is 6 ft. 7 in. At $1.50 an inch, that comes to $118.50." The fisherman's smile fades. "You understand, of course," the stranger says soothingly, "that we can arrange an installment plan...
...eccentrics. He is the type of man who finds mud puddles appearing mysteriously in his path; his bulky purple cassock always seems ever so slightly askew. No one laughs. For warmhearted, avuncular Archbishop Ramsey also exudes the wisdom of a scholar and a deep-rooted faith, and seems every inch what he is in fact if not in name: patriarch of his arm of Christendom...
...eyes of Oklahoma were upon the skies as the first and second days passed without any rain, just as the Weather Bureau predicted. For the third day, the Weather Bureau forecast "a chance of light afternoon and evening thunder showers, with no more than one-quarter of an inch of rain...