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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Under the Ice. A long-range project to be started this season is to turn permanent icecap bases into under-ice towns. As snow accumulates, the U.S.'s present buildings sink deeper and deeper beneath the frosty surface. New buildings will be put in deep ice trenches. Observation towers and other structures that to be useful must remain above the surface will be mounted so they can be raised as the snow piles high...
...questions medieval debaters liked to argue was how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. The National Bureau of Standards does not allow itself to measure angels-but it has developed a micromicrocamera that can put a page of the Bible on a bit of photographic film much smaller than a pinhead. On this scale all the pages of a Bible would barely cover Lincoln's head on a if piece; the 27,357 pages of the Encyclopaedia Britannica could be reproduced on the back of a matchbook...
...July, ending a two-month decline and taking the sting out of a decline in manufacturers' sales for the sixth straight month. Machine-tool orders soared 32% over July for the best rise of the year, partly because of pending price increases of from 4% to 10%. Construction put in place in September continued to move upward. Department-store sales snapped back from a three-week decline, rose 2% over last year across the nation. Pointing up the price stabilization point. Detroit's new models came on the market at or below last year's prices...
With a Loew's kitty of $20 million, Larry Tisch is searching for new acquisitions that may take the theater firm into real estate, manufacturing or radio and TV as well as hotels. Tisch is demolishing several theaters in order to lease the land or put up new buildings. Yet he does not intend to take Loew's out of theaters, is looking for new sites to lease on the grounds that TV's "deteriorating quality" will drive more and more people to the movies...
...Tisches sold the Americana last April to put their money into higher-paying investments, immediately leased it back. They have also built two luxury motels in Atlantic City, but intend to make most future acquisitions in the hotel-motel field through Loew's. They had been large stockholders in Loew's Inc. before the court-ordered separation of the theater corporation in March 1959 made it a separate company. Early this year they got control (they now own 650,000 shares) of the theater firm...