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PEPSI-COLA'S UNICEF exhibition warms the heart of every little girl at the fair with a boat ride through a fantasy of Disney dolls. Hundreds and hundreds of them, dressed in saris and kilts, Lederhosen and grass skirts, they wink and blink, nod and grimace, dance and sing to a joyful hymn in praise of world understanding called It's a Small World...
...views before world opinion. Still, crossing the lines is tricky. "The technique," says one experienced correspondent, "is to wave something white, like a shirt or a sheet, and yell 'press' in the appropriate language. Drive slowly, don't get them startled, honk in the daylight and blink headlights at night." Last week, however, NBC's Al Rosenfeld neglected the technique. Waved past a Greek outpost, he and an assistant headed across no man's land without signaling. Rosenfeld was hit in the face by a Turkish bullet. He piled...
...hydraulic mechanism grinds away and whisks you 53 ft. up into IBM's huge egg nesting in steel trees. There you can peek 90 ft. down to the ground or settle back and be assaulted by a plethora of images flipping onto nine screens faster than you can blink...
...hydraulic mechanism grinds away and whisks you 53 ft. up into IBM's huge egg nesting in steel trees. There you can peek 90 ft. down to the ground or settle back and be assaulted by a plethora of images flipping onto nine screens faster than you can blink, showing how IBM, and all of us, solve our problems...
...explode, and proves the thesis with wonderful models of future machines and future cities in contemporary wastelands. Man will subdue the primordial jungle, for example, with a G.M. machine a couple of hundred yards long. Out in front of it, smaller machines fell the great trees with laser beams. Blink, blink. The red beams slice the trees and they topple. The great mother machine now takes over, moving forward to eat the trees and all the undergrowth, meanwhile extruding four-lane highways from its distant rear. Dazzling cities spring up out of the bush to either side...