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Lowell House senior Dick Button will be off on his yearly whirlwind world skating tour December 20. This season's trip, his fourth since he came to Harvard, will also be his most ambitious; it will last more than three months, and will cover France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, India, Japan, the Philippines, and Hawaii...
When Bob Taft stepped out of an airplane at Chicago one day last week, an enthusiastic Republican delegation was there to welcome him. Among them was Miss Constance O'Brien, who stepped up and gave him a Taft-for-President button that her grandfather wore in 1908 when William Howard Taft, the Senator's father, ran for President...
...engaging, bespectacled Phil (High Button Shoes) Silvers, who works like a truck horse at the speed of a race horse and with the timing of a steeplechaser. As TV's headlining, scene-hogging, credit-grabbing Jerry Biffle, the sort of megalomaniac who would throw himself in the path of a car if the headlights seemed bright enough, he bears a distinct but not very damaging resemblance to Milton Berle...
Secretly, Groggle resents modern woman as a parasite who leads a push-button life of leisure while he slaves over a hot desk. "Actually, every laborsaving device of the past century has added to women's work ... A man invents a vacuum cleaner and ... a co-conspirator popularizes Venetian blinds, so there will be something else for the vacuum cleaner to do in a jiffy. A man turns out a simple little mechanism to make melon balls, and it's no longer comme il faut to toss a plain hunk of melon into a fruit salad...
Garrett's starter, no bigger than a fat suitcase, is a miniature gas turbine engine. It is started at the press of a button by its own storage battery, runs on kerosene, and has enough power to start a big jet engine in 30 seconds. It is light enough (150 Ibs.) to be carried in bombers, can be easily detached to save weight for combat missions. A smaller version ("The Baby") will be made for fighters...