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Chazen and John L. Chamberlain III in the New England Journal of Medicine, power mowers act exactly like missile launchers. And a dangerous wound may be devilishly hard to find. Rotary mowers have flat cutting blades that spin at 2,400 to 4,000 r.p.m. The swift blades can hurl a stone, a rusty nail or a broken-off piece of the mower itself at a speed of 300 ft. per second. A child in the next yard may not realize what...
...back up stories high in the pipes of tall apartment buildings. A high-sudsing syndet falling through a pipe from the 15th floor may enlarge itself 17,000 times by the time it hits the basement. The widespread use of low-sudsing detergents (among them: All, Dash, Fun, Spin) would help vastly to solve the problem, but they are nowhere near as popular - one building management firm offered to supply upper-floor dwellers with a low-sudsing detergent free of charge, but without success...
Standard's particular specialty-business forms printed in continuous rolls with holes punched at regular intervals down each side-spin through the high-speed printers of almost every major U.S. corporation. All this gave Standard 1961 sales of $58 million and profits of $3,100,-ooo. And this year things look even better: reporting record first-quarter sales of $16.8 million, Standard has just split its stock 2-for-1 and increased its dividend 14% (to 80? a share...
...science exhibit for children eight to twelve years old (even the low-slung staircases are built to discourage adults) is one of the fair's best shows. Here kids can poke their arms into plastic sleeves to see how heavy a grapefruit is on Mars, spin on a platform by tilting a giant gyroscope, make wave patterns in water tanks, and watch a 40,000-member ant colony go busily about its cutaway civic activities...
...Quart. Under the hood, the news is turbines. The Chrysler Corp.'s superbly smooth version of this engine, which runs on any inflammable fluid (the publicity department likes to take a car for a $500 spin on a quart of Arpege). is the engineering department's answer to slumping sales. Chrysler is using it in the Dodge Turbo Dart and Plymouth Turbo Fury. Britain's entry: the Rover T4, which was exhibited next to Rover's first turbine, the Jet I, demonstrated twelve years ago. All in all, the show was a record breaker: 450 entries...