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...Compacting shelving, currently the rage among storage folks (it is now being installed in the Peabody Museum), is very space-efficient, since many shelves can be placed in one room, but is intended primarily for deep storage and is easily accessible to only one person at a time. When several people use compact shelving at the same time, coordinating the sliding shelves becomes a problem, and someone could conceivably get squashed. Moving valuable books to safer storage space is a nice idea, but just as expensive as the weeding-out option, and the "safer storage space" would probably prove less...
...respectable hotel room is complete without a color television and telephone. If Travelhost Network, a travel-service company based in Dallas, has its way, soon no hotel room will be complete without a computer. When Travelhost's compact Quazon computer terminals are hooked up to a television and telephone, guests can check airline schedules and make reservations, scan U.P.I, reports for the latest news and stock prices, catch the sports scores or play electronic games. Business travelers can read messages or documents transmitted from their offices...
...festival this compact, where impressions and insights jostle for retention in the playgoer's cluttered mind, similarities among plays are easier to spot than originality. This year's crowds chuckled every time barking was heard offstage. Canines figured in nine of the plays, from the howling hounds of hell in Timothy Mason's In a Northern Landscape to the title creature in Patrick Tovatt's Bartok As Dog. Feminism, incest and home cooking were other recurrent themes. But on half a dozen occasions one could hear distinctive voices rising above the collective murmur-and, in Kathleen...
...tuning in to just a few of the vast range of radio frequencies that might be used for transmissions. Horowitz, who caught the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) bug after Cornell's Sagan lectured on the subject at Harvard, decided to improve the odds. He developed a compact multichannel receiver that can be hooked to a large antenna and can listen to 131,072 closely spaced channels simultaneously...
...machine. This month two major manufacturers, Sony and Magnavox, are introducing a limited number of digital record players in audio and department stores across the U.S. The machines, which retail for $800 to $1,000, use a laser beam instead of a conventional tone arm and stylus to play compact discs, or CDs, that are only 4.7 in. in diameter and will sell for about $17. Says Dan Davis, vice president of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers: "There is a consensus that this is perhaps the most exciting of the breakthroughs in the field, including the LP and stereo...