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...background is a dream-invention: a single picture tube that glows in all colors simultaneously, but which will be "compatible" with the present-day black & white system. There have been many attempts to build such a tube, but none has succeeded so far. Many experts believe that color television should be postponed until such a tube, or something equally good, has been developed. To adopt either the CBS or the RCA system in the meantime, they argue, would be to freeze color television at a low level...
...foundation's purpose, Fuller says, is to explore "the borderline areas of technology . . . that industry cannot undertake. Bucky believes his researches into the structure of such things as crystals, stars and atoms will result in brand-new principles of building construction. Present-day houses weigh about 22 Ibs. per cubic ft.; Bucky has plans for a new house he calls "Geodesic" which he hopes will weigh only 1 Ib. per 50 cubic ft. If this one turns out to be practical, no one will ever again chuckle at Bucky's dreams...
...only with such moral questions as how low can a neckline plunge.* Last spring Maryland's three censors extended their sway from decolletage to dialectics: they banned a 50-minute Polish documentary, On Polish Land (with no English subtitles), because they did "not believe it presents a true picture of present-day Poland." Instead, they ruled, the film "appears to be Communist propaganda...
...Wallace was one of the first to market a commercial strain of hybrid seed, but he did not invent the process. Many present-day methods of hybrid corn production can be traced back to the work of Professor George H. Shull around 1906 at the Station for Experimental Evolution in Cold Spring Harbor...
When the Whitney opened its salmon-pink quarters on West Eighth Street in 1931, Mrs. Force continued to focus her attention on present-day U.S. artists, letting the older established museums fill in the historical background. Mrs. Whitney paid all the bills, left $2,500,000 to keep the museum going after her death in 1942. The Whitney never offered prizes, instead spent from $10,000 to $30,000 a year buying the pictures it liked. Up until her last illness, Juliana Force moved poker-backed and sharp-eyed among American artists, watching for someone who might make another Whitney...