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These were among the first widespread showings of a new industrial training system that animates still pictures by a new use of polarized light. Industry and government are already using the system for everything from showing how the new Bulova electronic watch operates to training workers to launch a Titan missile from an underground base. F. P. Copper, of General Electric's light military electronics division, says of the animating process: "It's terrific...
...other claims on the $607,128 estate of the late Pepsi-Cola Chairman Alfred Steele, it appeared that there would be nothing left for his widow, Pepsi Prolocutrix (and Cinemactress) Joan Crawford, 52. Also on the Surrogate's docket last week: a claim by Socialite lleana Bulova, for the widow's share of the $10 million to $15 million left by the late Arde Bulova. Still the smashing-looking blonde she was at 18, when first wooed by the watch magnate. the Rumanian-born widow, now 34, charged that in 1956, two years before he died...
Personal timekeepers (trade doubletalk for watches) do not use anything as fancy as hydrogen atoms. Since the 17th century they have depended on a delicate hairspring that keeps a balance wheel turning backward and forward at a regular rate. But last week Bulova Watch...
...second, giving a musical note a little higher than F above middle C. Each vibration pushes a jewel-tipped spring against a pinhead-sized wheel whose rim has 300 microscopic ratchet teeth. The turning of this wheel moves the hands of the watch through a conventional gear train. Bulova guarantees that its electronic watch, which it calls the Accutron. will not gain or lose more than one minute per month. Price of present-model watches...
...hand-size shortwave transistor radio. Produced by Bulova Watch Co., it can pick up shortwave stations round the world. Price...