| Viktor Schreckengost (1906 - 2008) Career Produced an Elegant Design ...
Melding Bauhaus functionalism and an American sensibility, Viktor Schreckengost pioneered industrial design for products from toys to dinnerware. Mr. Schreckengost lacked self-promotional drive, yet managed to make himself a presence in most households by the sheer quantity and variety of products he designed. Flashlights and riding mowers, bicycles and fire-engine pedal cars for children all flowed from his drafting table. He once told an interviewer, "If we sold 400,000 of something, I felt I was on the right track." .
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Market St., Akron. $5; skate rental, $2. 330-784-4733. Fairlawn Post Veterans of Foreign Wars Open Meeting 10:30 a.m., Fairlawn VFW Post 349, 3420 S. Smith Road, Fairlawn. Owls for Kids 10:30 a.m., Coventry Oaks Pavilion at Firestone Metro Park, off Axline Road in South Akron. Metro Parks, Serving Summit County, will present a Kinderealm program about owls for youngsters 3 to 5 years old and accompanying adults. Registration is required. The program will be repeated Thursday and Friday. Call 330-865-8065 for reservations. AARP 682 Meeting 11:30 a.m., First Congregational Church, 292 E. Market St., Akron. $7. Reservations required. 330-535-4727. Lunch and Movie Noon to 3 p.m., Lake Senior Center, 1635 Edison St. N.W., Uniontown.
Men's Fitness magazine ranks OKC among fattest cities
Oklahoma City residents appear to be getting fatter. A fitness survey of the 50 largest cities in the nation conducted by Men's Fitness magazine and released Monday shows Oklahoma City has moved up seven spots in the 2008 survey to No. 8 on the magazine's list of the ten fattest cities. .
FIFA Street 3: Sports game (Electronic Arts for Xbox 360 and ...
The biggest problem with FIFA Street 3 is that there's not enough of it. If this new hyper-real bicycle kick-heavy soccer game cost $20, instead of $50, it would get a pretty strong recommendation. But at best, this game is good for a weekend rental, or maybe a bargain-bin pickup somewhere down the line. Its biggest strength is how easy it is to master the game, and the constant high-flying action. Even the clumsiest players can do things that Pele never dreamed of. The FIFA Street series is another cousin to the still-popular NBA Street franchise, one of the better arcade-style loose interpretations of a real-life sport. (NFL Street rounds out the family.) When it came out several years ago, NBA Street wasn't just a blast to play, it had a visual style that immediately made the gamer feel that much more hip for owning it.
Jeff Randall's A-Z guide to 2008
The difference is, the data aren't likely to turn up at a police station. N is for November 4, when America elects a new president. Hillary Clinton is 4-6 favourite. I'll be taking the 5-4 odds against any other candidate winning. O is for "Oh why, oh why did I do it?" A question being asked by those who were suckered into signing up as members of Gordon Brown's business panel. P is for Pants Index. Devised by this column, it's a mysteriously accurate forecaster of Marks & Spencer's share price. Quoted recently by Sir Stuart Rose in a presentation, it will be recalculated after M&S's Christmas trading statement. Q is for Quick Fix, which is precisely what Alistair Darling will be unable to offer us in his March budget. With Government borrowing running at £40bn a year, the new Chancellor has no wriggle room.
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