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Most of the processing work is done by remote control. The quieter isotopes can be watched through glass or plastic. The stronger ones must be watched with mirrors, as Perseus watched Medusa reflected in his polished shield. The gamma rays they send out pass right through a mirror and do not strike the worker who is watching from one side...
...rest of the Hall. The architects soon discovered that the building was even more massive than it looked. When Dudley opened in 1908, it was a privately managed apartment house for University men, advertised as the best built in Cambridge--and those were the days before plywood walls and plastic plumbing. In one instance, electricians had to go through 22 inches of masonry to put in a wall plug. Now the last vestiges of the destroyed suites are several ornate stone fireplaces...
...tone beanie, a magno-power '50 Ford ("oh boy--eye-popping thrills"), and a Donald Duck ring which rolls its eyes and opens its mouth when you apply the secret magnetic control (in the form of a miniature Pep box.) And inside amidst the Pep there is a plastic statuette, one of eighteen in a series ranging from football players to broncos rampant...
...Douglas kept at it. One day he turned up with a basketful of plastic edibles to make a compelling demonstration of just how little a relief family was getting. While he was addressing his colleagues, they stole the exhibit, sawed the pork chops in half, used the basket as a portable men's room. They bedeviled his witnesses, dug up old ordinances to confound him. Douglas confessed to friends: "I have three degrees. I have been associated with intelligent and intellectual people for many years. Some of these aldermen haven't gone through the fifth grade. But they...
...single furnished dormitory room costs $5,000 to build and equip; a double room, $10,000. The furniture consists of a brown metal desk with a birch top, a fluorescent desk-lamp, bed form fitting desk-chair, and an easy chair covered with a new simulated leather plastic...