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...propose, specific solutions. Some of the most common complaints, however, can be listed here. Cold food and overcooked vegetables result from the failure to synchronize the demand for the food in the lines and the supply from the kitchens. Serving methods are subject to question throughout the University. Plastic trays and cups are impossible to heat, and, therefore, cannot keep food warm. Although it is true that the cost of chinaware would be prohibitive, there is a possibility that the use of china cups would be feasible. The enormous wastage, largest at the Union, results generally from extravagant serving...
...Boston last week, when the curtain rolled up on 1948's baseball season, a giant of a man (6 ft. 4½ in.) limped out to pitch for the Philadelphia A's. On his left leg Leland Victor Brissie, 23, wore two socks and a plastic shin guard. He was not only a rookie but a southpaw to boot, and Plate-Umpire Cal Hubbard got set for a flurry of wild pitching. But the rookie's "live" fast ball cut the plate and his curve snapped over for strikes. Red Sox sluggers got only two hits...
...annual convention in Manhattan last week, the American Newspaper Publishers' Association looked over a room full of new labor-saving printing gadgets. Among them: a Fairchild photoelectric engraver that made cheap cuts of plastic in a fraction of the time required for the present zinc engraving. If VariTyping could be combined with a quick and cheap engraving process, then the newspaper of the future might be "printed" without printers. The publishers voted to spend $280,000 for research on new printing processes...
...made it pay by branching out, developing an electric shaver, an oxygen regulator for aircraft, a plastic shoe sole. As an Army major, he worked on guided missiles during World War II. At war's end, he set up the H. J. Rand Co. (the initials were reversed to avoid confusion with his father) with a capitalization of $80,000, to develop his washer...
...brain's electrical patterns have been used as a test for epilepsy in human beings since 1929. Dr. Grenell used a microvoltmeter to measure minute amounts of direct current; direct current, he thinks, reflects slow body processes like cell growth. He put his microvoltmeter inside a black plastic cabinet about the size of a cigar box. Then he attached two ordinary electrodes made from medicine droppers...