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...Mike Todd Jr.'s America Be Seated closed shortly after the fair opened. Another notable dropout was Wonder World, a glossy musical-extravaganza with a cast of 250 that at times was bigger than its audiences. The Texas pavilion's lavish To Broadway with Love and Dick Button's Ice-Travaganza also folded. The Teatro Espanol's guitarists and flamenco dancers would be a hit in Manhattan; at the fair, business is so slow that the Spanish pavilion has slashed admission from $3 to a ridiculously...
Ampex's Videofile system condenses bulky file folders to tiny reels of television magnetic tape, enabling 250,000 document pages to be stored on a 14-in. reel. At the push of a button, from any number of locations and at great distances, Videofile's computer automatically locates the individual file-on-film, then reproduces it as pictures on a TV screen or as printed copies-all in less than a minute. The operator can scan the TV screening of the file, get printed copies of only what portions he needs. More important, says Ampex, individual file entries...
...this week-part of a movie he is shooting here-did not shatter the peaceful illusion." Johnson was allowed to see the secret war room at CINCPAC, which he found quite different from the doomsday vault of a war room in Dr. Strangelove: "I kept looking for the button and I didn't find one. There was, however, the admiral's gold telephone. And I suppose one could make quite a mess by saying the wrong things into that...
...building, to the executive offices. Secretaries, instead of being tucked away in dark inner cubicles, were given window seats. Treetops wave just outside the horizontal steel louvers, which will eventually rust to a cinnamon dark ness. Every office has its own thermostat, and the whole building has push button telephones...
...began yelling that he was "an agitator." The police then arrested Hodes, though they did not tell him what the charge was. Several of them bit him in the ribs with their billy clubs, and one police officer stabbed Hodes in the leg with his own SNCC button, the Harvard junior reported last night; "you know," Hodes said, "kid stuff...