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...make the shingle obsolete. Atlanta's Lenox Square shopping center was constructed with the True Gun. developed by Tulsa's Max True, which sprays concrete. A wire-tying gun enables workmen simply to aim at the joint where steel reinforcing rods need to be lashed, pull the trigger, and the job is done. For do-it-yourself fans, Chicago's Wonder Building Corp. has brought out fallout-bomb-shelter kits: backyard model for $1,200, smaller basement shelter...
...urchin, a tough kid and a little loudmouth." Hary cockily dispensed with a coach: "I've been raised to stand on my own two feet and can take my fate into my own hands." In time, Hary's starting reflexes came to have as delicate a hair trigger as his temper. "Hary is capable of anything," said a German track official last month, "provided he doesn't lose control over himself. He's the flightiest athlete on the German team...
Last week in the Warwick fire station. the counter on Dr. Anderson's gun clicked off the 500,00cth shot that he and his corpsmen have given in the past six years. Soon after, Dr. Anderson had to quit and let a corpsman relieve him; the trigger ringer on his right hand, despite a golfer's glove, was too painfully blistered for him to carry...
Whirlaway. Analyzing the prodigies' habits, Teacher Wood slowly evolved a new technique, practiced it for years on high school and college students in Utah. She calls it "a process of reading rapidly down the page, allowing the eyes to trigger the mind directly and eliminating the necessity of saying, hearing or thinking the sound of words." Mrs. Wood thinks most people are "sub-vocalizers" or inward lip-readers. Just as a pilot is aware of many things at once, her students learn to steep themselves in a book's total mood and meaning. "You see more than...
...critic had said that if the President were really a man, he would take a little colored girl by the hand and lead her through that line of bigots into the high school. "That's easy to say if you are not involved," said Sahl, fingering the trigger. "But if you are in the Administration, you have a lot of problems of policy, like whether or not to use an overlapping grip." Wild laughter always greeted that one, but with a nod and a nervous chuckle, and a characteristic "It s true, it's true," he would slide...