Hi Guys-

This certainly is an interesting thread. If I remember correctly, in
Craig's "Dragnet" episode Joe and Bill were investigating a pyramid scheme.
The person behind the scheme stated the number of "generations" that would
have to evolve from a given participant's operation for him to get rich.
The mathematician demonstrated that a patrticipant's little empire would
exceed the population of the US for him to get rich, as promised.

A few weeks back I saw something called "First Man Into Space," late fifties
vintage. The first man into space was to havve been a Naval aviator-a
Lieutenant-flying a rocket plane dropped from a bomber. The project was run
by the pilot's brother-a Commander. I enjoyed the all-Navy operation. In
one scene one of the Naval officers in the project picked up and played with
his slide rule. Didn't catch the model, butr it was a nice, solid-body
type. I like to think that it was a Darmstadt or an Electro. And don't ask
me how the movie turned out, I couldn't make myself stick with it.

Jim

>From: "Craig Kielhofer" <ema1311@...>
>Reply-To: sliderule@egroups.com
>To: "SLIDE RULE MAILING LIST" <sliderule@egroups.com>
>Subject: [sliderule] forgetful
>Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 20:55:27 -0600
>
>I send the last post and THEN remembered another sighting.
>
>On the old TV show Dragnet, there was an episode where they were in court
>and they had a math professor testifying. During his testimony he used the
>slide rule to make a point of something and then when they asked him a
>question
>he fiddled with it for 5 seconds and then came up with the answer.
>
>just thought I 'd get another sighting in....
>
>cjk

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