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Biggest & Fastest. All this is a far cry from the elevator seen by New Yorkers at the Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1853. The inventor, a New England master mechanic named Elisha Graves Otis, rode up & down in it, occasionally making the crowd gasp by cutting the elevator's rope cable with a knife. Others, as far back as Archimedes, had built vertical hoists of one kind or another, but Otis was the first to build one with an automatic safety catch to keep it from falling. It was a kind of ratchet, like the gadget that prevents the spring...
...personal surgeon, had had a pretty good idea of what was coming. In the courtroom at Nürnberg last year, while his trial droned on, he doodled on a sheet of paper. On one sheet he drew a wooden gallows with 13 steps leading to the rope and noose. Beneath it he wrote: "Heil Hitler, ich komme bald" (I'm coming soon). Last week, in the courtyard of the Landsberg prison, Karl Brandt went to his gallows.* With him went six other Nazi doctors and SS officers, including Karl Gebhardt, Himmler's physician, and bearded, Mephistophelean...
...Ernest Weber, a Manhattan delivery man, was bustling along like a jet-propelled dowager in a huff. One of the favorites, he used a lot of hip-shimmy ("It gives you a longer stride"), and piston-like arm motion ("I try to think I am pulling on a rope"). His eyes were busy too, watching a German refugee (now a U.S. citizen) named Henry Laskau, the man in the lead. Laskau, who took up walking as a sport only two years ago, used less wiggle and a giant stride...
...Great Alberti and the Great Alzanas more than counterbalance the absent Great Wallendas. They even counterbalance the present Great Rose Gould, a highly publicized aerialist who does little more than hold on tightly to a rope as she plummets earthwards. Alberti stands on his head on a 50-feet pole and, as the audience watches in silent dismay, causes the pole to sway back and forth. Alzanas skips rope on a high wire, his father standing 40 feet below in the interest of safety, if you can call it that. He indulges one of history's most perverse senses...
...proponents of this compulsory Student Activities Fee have offered forceful and repeated reasons for its acceptance by the undergraduates. They say that passage of the plan would end for Radcliffe's undergraduate organizations the uncertainty and financial tight-rope walking which have so often prevailed in the past...