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...everything from a battle-dressed Leif Ericson, which the U.S. gave to Iceland, to George Washington on the arch in Manhattan's Washington Square. But the warm talent of the man is best seen in a statue of a chubby little boy that he called Man Cub. The stark-naked cub: the future mobilist...
...Dump City Council President Abe Stark, a kindly but ineffectual Brooklyn haberdasher whose main claims to fame are that he 1) sold suits to De Sapio ($75 to $90), and 2) gave a free set of duds to every ballplayer who hit his advertising billboard in the old Ebbets Field. To replace Stark, nominate the clean-up-minded deputy mayor-Felt...
...instruments employed: Chinese gongs, temple blocks, tom-toms, marimbas, vibraphones, Pyrex mixing bowls, a xylophone, a celesta, a glockenspiel. For all its fearsome instrumentation, the concerto proved to be one of Cowell's more immediately appealing works - alternately delicate and boisterous, crosshatched with curiously shifting rhythms. Less stark than the works of Cowell's youth (when he liked to roll the piano keys with his fore arms to achieve "tone clusters"), the concerto was also less melodic than the works of what Cowell thinks of as his middle period. "No composer worth his salt these days would...
...quinine, cholesterol and, in 1960, of chlorophyll. Woodward seeks no practical application for his work, saying: "I'm just fascinated by chemistry. I am in love with it. I don't feel the need for a practical interest to spur me." At an opposite pole is M.I.T.'s Charles Stark Draper, an engineering genius in aeronautics and astronautics who describes himself as nothing more than "a greasy-thumb mechanic type of fellow." And there is William Shockley, who with two colleagues (John Bardeen and Walter Brattain) earned a 1956 Nobel Prize for creating the transistor?that hugely useful little solid...
...Charles Stark Draper, 59, head of M.I.T.'s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of its Instrumentation Lab, was once trying to spell out the meaning of dyne centimeter, a tiny unit of torque (twisting force). "A dyne centimeter," said Draper, a sociable chap, "is just about the amount of torque that would have to be applied to my arm to get me to take a drink." Draper's contributions to aeronautic and missile technology include the A-4 gunsight that gave U.S. Sabre jets clear superiority over Russian MIGs in Korea and the inertial guidance systems that control...