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...research director of the New Jersey department of transportation. He set up a research group, which finally evolved a "fogbroom," a 30-in. by 48-in. aluminum frame strung with a half mile of nylon thread and rotated at 86 r.p.m. by a base-mounted motor. In a research chamber in which a prime New Jersey fog can be simulated, a row of fogbrooms substantially thinned a test fog in a minute and completely cleaned it up in five minutes...
...Family Way. In England's North Country, a young couple spend their wedding night at his parents' place. The boy (Hywel Bennett) has a skin even thinner than the walls of the bedroom, and as his loutmouthed father (John Mills) fusses with a chamber pot next door, he finds himself unable to consummate the marriage. When their honeymoon plans fall through, the couple stay on in the house, and Bennett remains incapacitated. "One doesn't miss what one's never had," the bride (Hayley Mills) assures him. But a month later, she miserably confides her troubles...
...name Leonard Shure has come to command a great deal of attention in Cambridge musical circles. Last year the Summer School persuaded him to lead its brand-new and well-touted Seminar in the Performance of Chamber Music--something of a "first" for academically oriented Harvard. This spring he gave a solo piano recital as part of the ceremonies celebrating the newly refurbished Lehman Hall part of Dudley House. Now he is back again to lead the chamber music seminar and to serve as the Summer School's resident pianist. Monday night, wasting no time, he inaugurated this season...
What is special about these business leaders is that they are all women. One of them, Mrs. Tran Thai Muor, is vice president of the Saigon Chamber of Commerce. Another, Miss Bich Tuy Truong Thi, is general manager of Socipha, a drug manufacturing house. Others are involved in retail selling, manufacturing, pharmacetuicals, chemicals and textiles, import-export business...
Sonic Boon. Another chamber shows five screens arranged in the shape of a cross. In the most effective sequence, an African hunter peers out at the jungle, spear in hand, searching the waters for a crocodile. Around him the night seethes ominously. When at last he kills his quarry, the screens abruptly fill with white-eyed death masks that seem, for once, as terrifying to the viewer as they must be to the native. Labyrinth's narration is sometimes painfully portentous: "The hardest place to look is inside yourself, but that is where you will find the beast...