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...from Edison. The space technicians have also found countless new uses for old products. Thomas Edison in 1883 developed the world's most heat-resistant material-pyrolytic graphite-but it languished until researchers began to coat nose cones with it to resist high re-entry heat. Next month California's Super Temp Corp. and Tar Card Co will begin marketing $8.95 tobacco pipes lined with pyrolytic graphite. The fuel cell, which generates power by converting hydrogen and oxygen into electricity and water, was a laboratory curiosity until General Electric put it in Gemini. Now General Dynamics is using...
...both the Venice and New York fests. It is a stark, black-and-white portrait of an old man who awaits death in a small, lonely room. Seeking absolute solitude, he turns out his cat and dog, closes the curtains, covers the parrot cage and goldfish bowl with his coat, and blacks out the room's only mirror. Finally, he destroys the last reference to the world in which he has lived, a packet of old photographs. But he cannot escape himself, and as he lifts his eyes to the barren wall before him, he comes face to face...
...years later, Goethe suffered another creative commotion, and in less than three weeks produced The Sorrows of Young Werther, a novel that swept across Europe "like the Blue Plague"-a reference to the blue frock coat that Werther wore and that millions of young men now affected. To the disgust of their elders, they also went in for such Wertherisms as poetry, suicide and (horror of horrors in 18th century Germany) nude swimming...
...Erhard. "One reads his campaign literature," cried Schmidt. "Me, me, me, I, I, I. The psychologists call this overcompensation of one's own complexes." To roars of applause and whistles, he went on, "The man has absolutely no powers of decision. The symbol on Herr Erhard's coat of arms should not be a cigar but a shaking pudding...
...settled down to 5,000,000 yearly. To compensate for this leveling-off process, small-appliance makers compete fiercely with one another to bring out new products and improvements. This year half a dozen companies are introducing "salon-type" hair dryers on floor stands, Teflon is being used to coat just about everything from irons to coffee pots, and the long-established blender market has come alive again with the introduction of improved models by Waring, Oster, Ronson and Dormeyer. Miniature washers and dryers that take one shirt or pair of socks at a time, have also appeared; Ronson...