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Floating Out Glass. Ordinary plate glass is melted, put through a series of rollers and then ground and polished to remove imperfections. The float process, devised by Alastair Pilkington, the company's production head and a distant cousin of the founder, produces better glass more simply and cheaply. In the process, molten glass flows onto the surface of hot liquid tin, acquiring a smooth, flawless surface as it floats, then is quickly cooled and hardened before it can be marred by touching any solid object. By reducing the steps in the production process, the method saves...
PASSWORDS by Alastair Reid. 238 pages. Little, Brown...
Pleasant Sundays in Scotland. By contrast, Alastair Reid, a 37-year-old Scotsman, has a widely broadened mind and deals in negotiable facts and research-tested opinions about gypsies, Basques, Catalans and others among whom he has traveled. One who can write pleasantly of a Scottish Sabbath has to be a pleasant man; Reid is all that, and a much more reliable one than Carson. Unhappily, he gives the impression that however far he traveled, he always had a return ticket tucked into an inside pocket. There is only one place where the paths of these men might possibly have...
...live by writing and curiosity." A man to be found asking penetrating questions in untraveled places, Alastair Reid, the individual who so characterizes himself, is a poet and a European correspondent for the New Yorker. That this laconic and bushy-browed Scotsman has a lively curiosity is evident from first meeting; that he has been quick to follow its lead is implicit in his present affiliation with Spanish affairs...
...Alastair Reid will speak tonight at 8 p.m., in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room...