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...Humbug." So eager were the natives to learn about democracy that word filtered over the bush telegraph that no electoral patrols would be attacked, "even with sticks and stones." In 12,000 villages and thousands of isolated hamlets, the teams used films to teach the natives voting techniques. To offset tribal boredom, lectures were interspersed with tape recordings of local "sing-sing" music. But presentations occasionally flopped. In one back-country village, natives complained that the voter shown on one of the election drawings was unknown to them. "Dispela man humbug mi no lookin dispela man wantain bepo," said...
...planning is "maximum convertibility." New class buildings will need movable walls for instant subdivision of big lecture halls into small seminar rooms, and vice versa. Physics labs must be convertible to biology labs almost overnight. Libraries need individual studies for independent research, computers to replace the card catalogue. To offset the anonymity of mass learning, dormitories should stress small-group living, even incorporate classrooms...
...production's strengths, however, cannot offset the play's weakness. Despite the prodigious cuts, a number of almost-identical scenes in which assorted rival kings condemn Tamburlaine to assorted dooms make the reading drag horribly...
...pose the static picture in last week's Look took two full days of work with a one-ton, cubical camera as complicated as an electronic computer. Five additional weeks were required to engrave the photograph, print it some 7,000,000 times on a sheet-fed offset press and then pour on and properly shape the clear plastic film that covers the picture with what amounts to a collection of lenses. The plastic lenses are so arranged that the viewer's left eye sees one of the serrated pictures, the right eye sees the other (see diagram...
...spite of all this, the U.S. Treasury expects sales to rebound after several months. The Commerce Department also figures that the number of smokers who quit or cut down will be offset by the youngsters who take up the habit...