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Biggest hit of the National Home Builders convention in Chicago was the "Coffee Butler," a self-cleaning automatic coffeemaker that, at the touch of a button, brews and serves a cup of hot, fresh coffee in a matter of seconds. Produced by the Havajava Manufacturing Corp. of Glendale, Calif., makers of coin-operated coffee machines, the Butler operates like something in a Rube Goldberg dream...
...hopper is loaded with two pounds of regular grind. When the button is pressed, a dispenser drops nine grams of coffee into a stainless-steel brewing cup. An immersion coil heats water to 210°. The water is then fed into the brewing cup, mixes with the coffee, then drains out into a second brewing cup below that contains the moist grounds from the last cup that was made. Finally, the coffee drains on through a spout into the user...
...problems that grownups never knew. "When I went to school here," recalls History Teacher Schuyler Royce of Andover's Phillips Academy, "the only question was which college you would take your white shoes to. When I got out in 1941, all I needed was a knit tie, a button-down shirt and Daddy's money to get into any college I wanted. These boys know they can't write their own ticket. They're so much more aware...
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories and Other Tales (Boris Karloff; Caedmon). Actor Karloff, in a voice as rich as a ripe persimmon, unwinds with "infinite resource and sagacity" the mad Kiplingesque logic featuring the rhinoceros with a three-button skin and the Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected "in more than Oriental splendor...
...Fashioned Thanksgiving (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Charlton Heston, Eddie Foy Jr., Dick Button, Betty Johnson, Richard Kiley, Comedians Bob and Ray, and Gene Barry in a musical special with gobble gobble gobble as the leitmotiv...