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...PHRENOLOGICAL LETTUCE PICKER, which "feels" each lettuce head to determine if it is ripe for harvest. Towed over the lettuce bed at one mile per hour, a 6-in. by 18-in. conveyor belt creeps over each head, pushing it downward in passing. The machine's small, electronic memory box has already been told how stiffly a ripe head should resist deflection. If the black box decides the head feels ripe, it triggers a clutch, which in turn sends a miniature guillotine slashing through the lettuce stalk. In recent tests, the machine lopped off some 4,500 heads...
...hour performance in the Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude, which closed a successful run last week. In it, she stood out against the fading background of a dated play, skillfully aging from a neurotic 20-year-old through a ripe and experimental maturity into a waspish old age surrounded by three men she has caught and caged...
...succession of fell females fall for Harry, it looks as if Feiffer is merely having a little fun at the expense of U.S. preoccupation with self-preoccupation. But Harry soon proves to be an innocent Candide ripe for torment on the low road to worldly wisdom. What blights Harry's cheerful narcissism is the warped love of a good woman. Her message: Harry must make a break through to other people. "Give, give, give," she chants...
...return, Nasser abruptly choked off the broadcast vituperation. He gave a place of honor to a visiting Syrian delegation during his Republic Square speech and conferred lengthily with the Syrians until their quiet return to Damascus at midweek. He had clearly decided that the moment was not yet ripe for a showdown with Baath leaders in both Iraq and Syria, especially since the projected tri-state United Arab Republic is still not formed. But the fight was not over, and if the past was any guide, it would not be long before Radio Cairo was aiming curses at the Arabs...
...M.I.T. and a Ph.D. at Berkeley, and become a nuclear notable for his "many-electron theory of atoms and molecules." Last week, 2½ years after joining the Yale faculty, where he teaches quantum chemistry to graduate students, Sinanoglu was named a full professor at the ripe young age of 28 years and three months...