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...fault belongs to technology. It was technology that emancipated woman--with gadgetry, contraception, and soap operas. Electric mixers, washing-drying-and-ironing machines, self-regulating gas ranges, automatic defrosters, frozen foods, Pillsbury cake mixes, vacuum cleaners and Simonize floor wax. The American woman left the sink for the radio, women's magazines, matinees, and the Book-of-the-Month Club. And dissatisfaction...
Pushbutton Camper. An experimental station wagon for campers, with a boat, tent, refrigerator, two-burner stove, sink with hot and cold running water, shower and curtain, was shown by Ford Motor Co. Power-operated equipment lifts the aluminum boat from its roof cradle and carries it overside for launching. Power gadgets also erect a tent with a full-size bed, move the kitchen onto the tailgate and thrust out a canopy to provide shade for the cook. Cost for experimental model: $40,000; if produced in quantity: below...
...trouble with this atmosphere is that it may become too easy, that the omnipresence of the faculty may leave the student unprepared for the sink-or-swim life in college, and that the lack of adequate competition for the bright student may remove the stimulus to do any kind of good work. Middlesex does attempt to develop a sense of responsibility about many things in the students' life. Faculty members supervise virtually all study halls, which are required for all but students in the top two classes unless they have honor grades. But by the time a students...
...Bryant Danner, the Crimson five had its most successful season in ten years. A victory over Yale in the last game of the year would have given the quintet a tie for third in the Ivy League, but Johnny Lee and Larry Downs scored 78 points between them to sink the varsity, 105-87. The quintet, nevertheless proved itself to be one of the college's most exciting teams and played to virtual sellouts in the IAB while a few year ago, the only spectators had been friends of the family and a few janitors...
...battle-ready division to the Middle East, no more than a regiment to Southeast Asia. It would take the Air Force and the Navy together several weeks to move the whole Strategic Army Corps overseas. This was why STRAC's senior officer, Paratroop Major General Robert F. Sink, 53, last week wound up the Army's proud announcements with a tough plea for the Army to get troop-carrier airlift of its own. Cried he: ''These divisions are a bunch of hitchhikers. If we don't have the means of getting transportation from...