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...eminent eight-man faculty committee has urged the appointment of a Faculty Committee on the Visual Arts to "encourage cooperation between the parts of the University which have to do with the visual arts...
...program will serve as an experiment to determine the extent of undergraduate facilities which will b included in the proposed $1.3 million Design Center. The structure, part of a broad Visual Arts Program for the University, would house some of the activities of the Graduate School of Design and expanded undergraduate design activities, including courses now offered by the Department of Architectural Sciences...
Since that historic flight, kept secret until last week, Inertial Guidance-the gyroscopic navigational system that guided the B-29 without visual or electronic aid from earth or stars-has been an obvious choice to control the U.S.'s ultimate earth-to-earth weapon: the pilotless intercontinental ballistic missile (TIME, Jan. 30, 1956). Last week in Cambridge. Mass., a pudgy, square-faced engineer who presides over an aging red brick factory building (still labeled "Home of Whittemore Shoe Polishes," but listed on Massachusetts Institute of Technology records as the Instrumentation Laboratory) outlined the details of Inertial Guidance, just declassified...
...which already sells $725 million worth of electronic products annually and leads in color TV, is planning to market a noiseless electronic air conditioner, has a pilot model now in operation. A.T.&T., whose entire telephone network is one gigantic computer, is working hard on a visual phone system it calls "Picture-phone," is experimenting with pushbutton dialing and voice dialing. Raytheon is already producing electronic range units for near-instant cooking, hopes to get the price to consumers down to $500 (from $1,200) soon. Westinghouse, which already has computer-controlled electronic elevators in operation, will soon market...
Keeping the large cast and the chorus, which is directed by James Armstrong, in motion about the stage is a job equalling in magnitude that of a circus ringmaster. Director Stephen Aaron performs it with skill, and the visual patterns he creates on John Ratte's simple but handsome set are generally attractive. Equally skilled is the choreography of Esther Brooks. She manages to keep the can-can, a dance which often involves more effort than it is worth, from degenerating into chaos. Musical Director John Perkins unfortunately demonstrates a less certain hand. The orchestra occasionally wobbles...