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...Board Rest Rooms. Despite its computers and coffee shops, Greyhound intends to remain primarily a bus company. Ackerman believes that load factors can be made even more profitable, is trying to attract more riders with soft chairs, glareless windows and on-board rest rooms. To get more passengers away from railroads-many of which are not sorry to see them go-Greyhound is constantly speeding up its schedules. On its 681-mile Canadian run from Vancouver to Calgary, its buses now beat the train by an hour. In some cases Greyhound can even compete with planes: the sign...
...spokes-all flexible -are shaped like a bowl, with the end of the steering post set deep inside. In a crash, the driver would hit the flexible rim instead of the rigid post. Other safety items: door latches designed so as not to spring open on impact, a glareless instrument panel, seat belts (optional), a shatter-resistant rear-view mirror...
...grimy Greek statuary and the faded photos of French cathedrals are on their way out and the archaic benches will be removed in favor of a sleek, specially designed desk chair. By spring, Henry Hobson Richardson's building will sport an interior in soft pastel shades, humming with glareless fluorescent lights...
...busy laboratory, Dr. Land developed Polaroid lenses and sunglasses, three-dimensional movies in natural color (not yet ready to market), and a system of Polaroid automobile headlights and visors for glareless night driving. But since the superbrilliant lights used in the Polaroid system would require equipping all the 33,225,000 cars on the road at the same time, the system made little headway. Nevertheless, with such new products as the camera and filter screens for television sets, Polaroid is finally in the black and hopes to stay there...
Gadgets have helped: new machines for anesthetics; easily tilted operating tables; glareless, heatless, shadowless operating-room lights; new sutures, like those made of the rare metal tantalum, to replace cat gut* for certain operations...