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...inclined to see America as a nation of spoiled children. "Americans want immediate satisfaction," says Manhattan Psychologist Harold Greenwald. "The car buyer can't wait a week for his car." Says Manhattan Psychoanalyst Sandor Lorand: "Patience is just another quality Americans forfeit when they live in this pressure cooker. From the day the child starts school, he is under pressure. No wonder he grows up impatient-first with others, then with himself...
...will be able to do a lot more with four new products that Ronson is bringing out this week. The four: a rotating electric hairbrush that massages as it grooms; a combination blender-cooker that whips up omelets or sauces; a butane-fired chafing dish; and a somewhat improved butane cigarette lighter, with the first do-it-yourself replaceable spark wheel. Such innovations are expected to help raise sales from last year's $69 million to $77 million in 1965. That's quite a bit for a company started 70 years ago by a tinkerer named Aronson...
...first act of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days Winnie, the heroine, finds herself telling a little story. It's about a couple named Shower (or Cooker) who stand and watch Winnie for a while, Winnie being buried up to her waist in a mound of earth. Mr. Shower (or Cooker), after drooling some obscenities, asks "what's the idea? what does it mean?" The success of Happy Days is to provide an answer so subtle and dramatic that the audience, in reaching for it, becomes a virtual participant in the play...
...stumbles on a cave that gives some shelter and contrives to start a fire with yellow rocks that burn like low-grade coal. On the third day, oxygen gone, he discovers that the rocks release it when they are heated, and in jig time he rigs up a pressure cooker and replenishes his tanks. A few days later, led by the small South American monkey that shared his spaceship, he finds a spring of clear water, and in the water a plant that bears edible tubers...
...many a sun-worshiping Southern Californian, the thick, eye-irritating blanket that often covers Los Angeles and has already pushed past the mountains into the San Fernando Valley is almost a way of life. The acrid murk is concocted in the area's own natural pressure cooker. A pair of the state's most abundant resources, sunshine and automobiles, cooperate...