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OTIS ART INSTITUTE (LOS ANGELES) William L. Pereira, architect-Arch...
...same technique to hunt for different targets. With pulses of "sound" far too high for human hearing, they are locating tumors that must be cut out, livers that must be treated for cirrhosis, babies' heads that are too big to pass through the mother's pelvic arch, even fast-beating heart-valve leaflets that need to be repaired...
Czechoslovakia's President Antonin Novotny, an unregenerate old-line arch-Stalinist, has doggedly resisted the "liberalization" urged by Moscow. Though Novotny has purged a few of the most loathed and offensive Stalinists from his government, notably ex-Premier Viliam Siroky and colleagues who were responsible for the show trials of 1952, Czechs have no illusions about the nature of the regime. Says one Prague cynic: "Why don't they just come right out and admit what they are? We wouldn't mind if he became Baron von Novotny and had his estates...
Into operation went ARCH-which stands for Airline Baggage Recovery Clearing House...
...that is unclaimed for three days is opened-an invasion of privacy which may be justified by the number of suitcases that look identical-and its contents are described by Teletype to ARCH headquarters in Chicago. The information is coded according to a standard format that assigns a number to each of the 89 most frequently carried articles: 12 is food, 27 is suspenders, 40 is sneakers. The fuming passenger is read a list of the articles and asked which of them his luggage contained. From there on, it is simply a question of matching up punch cards. Getting...