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...telephone" for deaf-mutes, developed at Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, uses a compact set of vibrators to communicate as many as 67 words a minute. The "speaker" taps out his message on a set of switches built into a piano-like keyboard. The "listener," his fingers resting on a duplicate keyboard, feels each key or combination of keys vibrate in response to the speaker's signals. According to the telephone's U.S.-born inventor, Aeronautical Engineer Joseph Hirsch, it is a simple matter to put the letters of the alphabet and actual words into an easily...
...resembles a '63 Oldsmobile F-85, its gracefully curved fenders and trim roof Pontiac's high-priced Grand Prix; the main contribution of Chevrolet designers is a squared rear deck and a taillight arrangement split by a chrome strip. But the Chevelle is wedged in between the compact Chevy II and the standard Chevrolet, and is so attractive a rival that it may steal some sales from both. It will come in eleven models ranging from a convertible to a station wagon, is only 16 in. shorter than a standard-sized Chevrolet and has that "big car feel...
...sculptured silhouette. Chrysler stylists eliminated the huge and unsightly vertical parking lights of the 1963 Plymouth, and gave the car a new front bumper and a lower, wider look. The new Dodge has slablike front fenders a la the current Oldsmobile, along with new horizontally placed dual headlights. The compact Valiant has a more massive horizontal front grille and vertical rear lights...
...small but intensely loyal group of art connoisseurs, there are few greater delights, in such a compact package, than the collection of design and fine art which has been maintained for six decades by the Museum for the Arts of Decoration at Manhattan's Cooper Union. Some consider it equaled elsewhere in the world only by London's Victoria and Albert and Paris' Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Now this museum is closed to the public-and suddenly it is the center of a controversy that is stirring the art world far beyond...
...gone questing for new sources of earnings. The industry got tangled in excess refining capacity built up during the Korean war. Its foreign operations have sometimes suffered from such cut-price competitors as the Russians, and intense competitiveness at home has brought on gasoline price wars in some areas. Compact cars drink less gasoline, and have helped to reduce the annual rise in gasoline sales from...