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Though lots are still fairly common, land is becoming so scarce in larger cities that the chains are building highrise, pigeonhole garages where cars are placed on a computer-controlled elevator that automatically stacks them. If the chains decide that the high cost of putting up such buildings is justified by the labor savings, the automated stack will probably be the parking lot of the future. The bigger companies are also expanding from operating only their own garages, now are contracting to manage parking lots for hotels, hospitals, universities and even shopping centers...
...fame painting pictures of Campbell's Soup cans, and then topped that by making reproductions of shipping cartons for them. This accomplishment did not entirely satisfy him. Somehow, says he, "they didn't look real enough." Then one day, in a supermarket, he saw a stack of boxes used for shipping Brillo steel-wool pads. He was overcome with envy and a sense of beauty. So he had a carpenter make 120 Brillo-size boxes, and ordered a silk-screen stencil of the Brillo design. He stenciled it on all the boxes, just in time for his current...
...After each exposure the film was moved mechanically to array the tiny pages in close-packed rows. This miracle of miniaturization, which makes the traditional Lord's Prayer engraved on a pinhead seem downright brobdingnagian, can cram 1,000,000 book pages on a stack of 3-in. by 5-in. index cards about 4 in. high. It could pack all the books in the Library of Congress into six ordinary filing cabinets. To read one of these literary slides, a viewer can use a device similar to a microscope, or the material can be projected in standard page...
...midnight, walked slowly to the jury box and said softly: "Let us see in the small hours of the morning if we can discover something never lost in this great city of Dallas. I speak of justice." He reviewed the psychiatric evidence, thumped a green cardboard box containing the stack of charts tracing Ruby's brain wave. At the defense table, big Joe Tonahill wept. Jack Ruby, chalk-white, sat listless and still...
...Harvard-Radcliffe teams were optimistic when they entered the national pancake eating championship at the Inter-national House of Pancakes in Brighton yesterday. But when members of the Crimson duos had downed their first stack of three pancakes, and saw Henry--a 6 ft., 5 in., 240 pound B.U. football player--calling for his second platter of 18 it became obvious that Harvard and Radcliffe very going to got clobbered...