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...preliminary exhibitions, Dick Button will give a demonstration of his champion figure skating, and Exeter alumni, including headmaster William Saltonstall '28 and former Harvard coach John Chase '28, will play in an alumni-school contest...
...Thirdly, it is not possible to select a particular date on which we must be ready for hostilities down to the last button." Alexander, like Ike, apparently thought that the "crash buildup" policy under which the West geared its rearmament to a nicely calculated schedule of "years of maximum danger" had outlived its useful ness. "We have substituted, and I say 'we' with emphasis, for the uncontrolled rush to arms at any price, the long view and the steady, calculated buildup." One Alex ander ambition: to build up a mobile strategic reserve in the U.K. This dashed hopes...
...appliance provides a choice of cold water, ice cubes or crushed ice. For easy reading, recipes are flashed onto a screen when they are placed in a photographic viewer. The sink provides water at any temperature from a single faucet. An electronic oven rises at the press of a button, bakes potatoes in five minutes or roasts a turkey in 45. Even the flour-sifter is motor-driven...
Standing on a dock edging the black Caroni River one day last week, Venezuela's President Marcos Perez Jimenez pressed a button, started a conveyer belt, and sent baseball-sized chunks of iron ore tumbling into the hold of a Swedish freighter. When the ship was properly "topped off," her hatchcovers were closed and she steamed downstream with the first cargo of ore for the U.S. from the steel-hungry 20th century's greatest ore find, Cerro Bolivar...
Other new automatic processes: ¶A push-button hide-tanning process developed by the Colonial Tanning Co. and just installed at its Milwaukee plant. Instead of curing hides by a great deal of manual work, Colonial-now has a conveyor belt to carry hides past splitting and shaving machines, uses automatic controls to mix acids and oils in correct proportion to tan them, and still more automatic controls to circulate just the right amount of warm air in drying rooms to finish curing the hides. In the past, it took six men eight hours to tan 50,000 square feet...