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...exchanges Berlin-trigue for erospionage. The film describes the latest adventure of Matt Helm (Dean Martin), a U.S. super-snooper who doesn't seem to know the difference between spying and peeping. Matt lives high in a penthouse equipped with a swimming pool built for two, a pushbutton bed that rises to any occasion, and a harem of twelve haymates (among them a cutie named Lovey Kravezit...
...small speakers not out of mere faddism but because they were better. Basically, the American wants what is best, not what will last forever. What upwardly mobile American really wants a car that will last 30 years, as he watches newer models go by, with power steering and brakes, pushbutton windows, et al. Or the refrigerator without automatic defrosting? The stove without a self-cleaning oven...
...United Air Lines opened a highly auto mated, $2,000,000 freight terminal two weeks ago in San Francisco. Eastern Air Lines is building something to match it in Atlanta. Using show biz, Pan American has run a TV ad in which a Caribbean calypso band rides pushbutton-directed pallets for a merry swing through the company's gleaming new $8,500,000 computerized terminal...
...form screens to give the patient privacy. With the help of a "grab bar," he can slide from bed to toilet without putting weight on his legs. Though the flushing unit is designed for 12-volt D.C. operation, it can also work on standard house and hospital A.C. A pushbutton activates a mechanism for pumping 81 gallons of deodorant, disinfectant flushing solution -enough, say the manufacturers, for 80 or more uses. Its convenience, they say, extends beyond hospitals and other institutions to the private home (if it can afford the unit price of $495) where a family member is convalescent...
...heavy-truck companies are developing increasingly sophisticated new equipment. Chevrolet showed off a turbine engine last week at the Manhattan convention of the American Trucking Association, though the current high cost of turbines may delay their widespread introduction for some time. Trucks are now equipped with air conditioning, pushbutton windows, transistor radios, bucket seats and adjustable steering wheels. Most big trucks carry beds with innerspring mattresses for the alternate driver; companies are planning to add bathrooms, pantries and even TV before long...