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...sputter like a Fourth of July sparkler. Inside a giant blast furnace, the fuse ignited a stack of oil-soaked railroad ties, which in turn set fire to a charge of coke and started the furnace. A few minutes later, Nancy's sister Carol, 5, touched a button which fired a rocket through a plug in an open hearth furnace already going, and 250 tons of flaming, molten steel poured into a massive ladle. Thus last week, less than two years after groundbreaking (TIME, March 12, 1951), U.S. Steel's $450 million Fairless Works in Morrisville, Pa., went...
...Paris last week, art lovers trooped to the Galerie Royale to see something billed as "The Art Gallery of the Future." The future turned out to be electrified. As visitors grouped before each of the exhibits, an attendant pressed a button. Thereupon, a spotlight flared on and a tape-recorded voice boomed out a learned commentary...
...Gadget of the week: a "student reaction meter" invented by two professors of engineering at the University of Tennessee. Henceforth, a student in the college of engineering will be able to protest that he doesn't understand what the teacher is saying by merely pressing his own special button, wired to a meter on the professor's desk. The more buttons, pressed, the more the needle will quiver, and the more it will behoove the professor to make himself clearer...
...automobile radio, with push-button tuning, that is no more drain on a car's battery than a pair of dial lights...
Pittsburgh's A. G. Trimble, a leading manufacturer of "I Like Ike" buttons, designed a new button saying: "I Told You So." He was not likely to find many customers; the victors were not much in the mood to gloat. The Republicans, said one Kentucky Democrat, were "like the mountain boy who courted the same woman for 20 years. When she finally gave in, he sat down and cried because he was afraid he might do something wrong." All over the country, people were paying off election bets. In Lowell, Mass., one loser let himself be bombarded by custard...