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...could then go into many experiments that the conditions of these buildings do not allow us to go into now," Sert said. The new structure would include workshops with special equipment as well as improved facilities for the use of audio-visual aids. The School's workshops are now housed in an old bindery on Memorial Drive...
Both firms seem to have just that sort of thing in mind. Highly diversified Prentice-Hall publishes books, loose-leaf reporting services, newsletters and training materials, and a subsidiary of fers residence and correspondence courses in brokerage and investment. The company is also developing audio visual devices and programmed materi als for teaching. Says Chairman (and cofounder) Richard Prentice Ettinger: "We're going into an era of education involving more than books. We'll put our knowledge together and beat every body." Added Sarnoff: "I believe this will advance the art of communications as a whole...
Cleverest noisemakers are the three audio-visual paintings by Marina Stern, including Hay Day, the talking nude. In Judgment Day, she depicts a standing angel trumpeting the word "Repent." Fastened to the canvas is a curved sports-car horn, and by squeezing the large rubber bulb that honks it, a gallerygoer can bellow an unrepentent riposte full of good Bronx cheer. Independence Day puts a tiny Statue of Liberty atop a large black pyramid. When the switch is turned on, Miss Liberty's torch blinks redly, and an ingeniously spliced tape combines the distorted voice of Mae West with...
While a few audio purists might quibble over the fidelity of some of the vintage vinyls, the quality is more than satisfactory for the average listener. For the man with a new hi-fi rig who is looking to build the nucleus of a good standard record library without having to hock his children, the 200-plus selections available in cut-rate classics are just the answer...
...plan and engineer a $27 million program of school and medical construction in northeast Brazil. The project will fan out over 1,500,000 sq. mil, and will include the construction of 6,500 elementary schools. 332 health centers, 22 teacher-training centers, 21 normal schools and 47 audio-visual centers plus the renovation of about 4,000 existing calssrooms. Daly will send a staff of 50 to supervise the project, but Brazilian contractors will do the construction work. Daly's aim: to create a name and a new market for his work in Latin Americaa, where he sees...