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...years of progress. New York on Jan. 1, 1900 had been innocently delighted with the snowflakes (the kind "that wear well"); but by the Christmas season of 1949, improvements had been made even in this department. Manhattan's Rockefeller Center designed its own snowflakes: they were of plastic, 19 inches in diameter, held by a pin to a 10-foot pipe...
Italian Communists sent a 5,000,000-lire Alfa Romeo sports roadster, the kind that Prince Aly Khan gave to Rita Hayworth. The French Reds sent a chromium-plated racing bicycle. From the Communist Party in Hungary came a red plastic telephone which, instead of sounding a bell, plays the Internationale. And from a well-wisher in North America (Moscow did not name him) came the headdress of an Indian chief, with a salutation hailing Stalin as "the greatest of warriors, honorary chief of all Indian tribes...
Died. George Morris Dorrance, 72, surgeon and soup magnate (Campbell's board chairman), socialite, specialist in cancer research, early plastic surgeon, originator (during treatment of World War I casualties) of an operative technique that has helped children born with cleft palates to speak more clearly; in Philadelphia...
Color with Fields, In the CBS color system (called "field sequential"), the transmitting camera, like the ordinary black & white camera, has a single Image Orthicon "seeing" tube. In front of it is a spinning disc with segments of blue, green and red transparent plastic. When a blue segment is in front of the tube, the camera sees only the blue light coming from the scene being televised. When the disc has turned a little, putting a red segment in front of the tube, the camera sees only the scene's red light. Next, it sees green through a green...
...despite the fact Princeton men are eating an ersatz Howard Johnson's at Commons, they generally fare better than their Harvard brethren. For fifty cents less per term, the Tigers eat family style off plastic plates, not navy trays. The food is rushed out directly from the kitchen, and is usually at least at room temperature...