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...will soon be in use. A Celanese Corp. of America process coats cottonlike cellulose around each filament of fiber in its Arnel fabrics. Onyx Oil and Chemical Co. has developed a chemical compound called Aston which can be applied to all synthetics to kill the static. Clothing manufacturers will plug the fabric as "Astonized...
...show was praised. Then he took aim at the 21-in.-screen hog caller for the world ("When we reach the stage where all of the people are entertained all of the time, we will be very close to having the opiate of the people"), let fly1 at the plug that comes on little blat feet: "More than half the commercials are filled with inanity, asininity, silliness and cheap trickery." TV's Arlene Francis burbled a defense ("We're only babies. We have to grow") after the ancient mellowed slightly and allowed that television is a "young medium...
...students best able to cope with the regular requirements were also allowed to dispense with them and get course reductions, tutorial for credit, and other special dispensations, while those who found courses extremely difficult to adapt to were not allowed to dispense with them, but continued to plug away at the media to which they were unsuited...
...serious duplication of function, however, for Audience appears to be bent upon being a full-fledged review, not merely a vehicle for undergraduate-prose-and-poetry. The difference in approach is illustrated most clearly in the Audience reviews and articles. Guy Davenport in "The Nymph in the Spark Plug" is concerned not merely with the "literary standards" of a literary mode but with its movement in intellectual history. The interest is in observation rather than in literary pomp. Audience's casual observations, however, can carry it astray. Donald Van Eman sets up a paradigm only so as to have...
Ever since the British burned Joan of Arc. martyrdom by foreigners has been pure glory for a Frenchman. Hard-pressed by critics of his Algerian policy and urgently in need of tax funds to plug his cracking war economy. France's Premier Guy Mollet last week chose to risk glorious extinction, at the stake of the U.N. Security Council rather than be buried in the ignominy of domestic issues...