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Ships on Air. From such far-out ideas come down-to-earth breakthroughs. It was only ten years ago that Christopher Cockerell, an English engineer, reversed the suction on a household vacuum cleaner, stuck the hose through the bottom of an open-ended tin can, watched the can float-and got the idea for the hovercraft. Today's hovercraft are amphibious vessels that glide across land or sea a few inches above the surface, supported on jets of air around the perimeter of the hull. Two weeks ago, Swedish Lloyd and the Swedish American lines signed a deal...
...Orleans, immerses himself in jazz, and suffers a creative convulsion that brings him to the edge of madness. He follows his daemon to East Harlem, then on to Germany, where he composes an electronic symphony, scores it for soprano, orchestra, tape, women's high-heeled shoes, and vacuum cleaner. When it is performed back in the Hollywood Bowl, some cheer and some jeer, but he is accepted by the public as a genuine genius...
...Congress recognized that equal employment status does not mean equal rights, and Smith's delaying tactic failed. Now women can apply for jobs from stevedore to sewer cleaner-though one exemption of Title VII permits employers to disqualify women where sex is a bona fide "occupational qualification." The Title nowhere defines what such a disqualification might be. "What do we do," asked an airline personnel manager, "when a girl walks in here with the credentials and asks for a pilot's job?" The possibilities are boundless. Must Cleveland's Exclusively Girls Employment Service change its name...
...potential of marketing sweet rolls in easy-to-heat foil pans, this year will sell $6,000,000 worth of "Aunt Fanny's" sweet rolls to supermarkets, airlines and other large buyers. For Cincinnati's Joseph McVicker, 34, the payoff idea was to turn doughlike wallpaper cleaner into a nonsticky modeling compound for children. Although the toymakers told him it would never sell, he has built a $4,000,000-a-year business from his "Play-Doh." Says McVicker: "I guess I wasn't bright enough not to act: you have got to believe in your product...
...family, and quickens the pulse of everyone he meets. Reluctant to resume his old job as an auto mechanic, Bus declines an apprenticeship with a homosexual undertaker and becomes a door-to-door peddler, sweeping bored housewives into his arms while whispering the praises of a new miracle cleaner. Next he lapses into adultery with his former steady (Ann-Margret), now married, of course, to "a wealthy older man." Since Ann-Margret's wriggly portrayal of a hick-town temptress requires orchestral accompaniment, their romance tends to slacken whenever the jukebox goes dead. Bus finally readjusts to civilian life...