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...Mexico's three current international conferences-on high-frequency radio and plastic surgery1-also watched the comet calmly. But not the third. Declared Wing Chao, president of the International Brotherhood of Magicians: "I graduated as an astrologer in China, and I speak with authority: the most tragic things will happen in Asia and in Europe." Nodded his colleague, Lee Fu: "Things are so bad I dare not speak of them...
...does multiplication, cross-addition, cross-subtraction and division electronically for the first time in business-machine history. The show also had many other new gadgets. Among them: ¶Dictaphone has a light (20-lb.), portable, plug-in model ($350) which records 15 minutes of dictation on envelope-sized plastic belts, so light that five can be mailed in a 3? envelope. ¶SoundScriber's dictating machine ($637.69) has a wafer-thin, Vinylite plastic record which can be erased and used over again by putting it in a machine which heats and whirls it for 29 seconds. ¶Thomas Mechanical...
...type of toy-the remote-controlled gadgets. They include a windup auto controlled by a long wire ($2.29), an electric truck operated by a 35-ft. cord ($39.50) and Erector's new $50 set to build a mechanical man that actually walks. Most complex of all is a plastic canal with hand-operated locks and boats which are propelled by electrified bars along the side...
Realist's Delight. Another new item this year is a plastic dollhouse, some of whose walls are conveniently missing, and whose rooms are outfitted with tiny plastic furniture ($8.95), complete with television...
Glass Sandwich. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. announced a new "folding glass," that can be collapsed like an accordion. It is made of thick glass sections joined together by a flexible airtight plastic. First use: in large, full-vision rear windows in the '49 Hudson convertible...