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...sunny living room of his home near Osaka, 26-year-old Seiji Hayakawa last week contemplated his existence and found it good. Mornings, Seiji and his young wife Kumiko wake to the bubbling of their automatic rice cooker, turned on minutes before by an electric timing device. Evenings they watch Laramie or the samurai dramas on their television set and right off the winter chill by toasting their feet on an electric footwarmer. So well paid are their jobs at the nearby Matsushita Electric Co. radio plant-as a foreman, Seiji makes $61.12 a month, plus a bonus...
...operation as carrying nitroglycerin in a sieve, but Director James Hill, in his first full-length film, has done the job with a sure hand. He shuts the spectator up in that hellhole of a kitchen until he feels like a cabbagehead after 74 minutes in a pressure cooker. If Leftist Wesker expects moviegoers, at the end of the film, to rise and shake off their chains, he is going to be disappointed. They will hardly have the strength to rise and put on their coats...
...Pressure Cooker. Certain that his three rivals knew of his tremendous rally. Palmer coolly switched to a conservative brand of golf and waited for the pressure to do its work. One by one. Palmer's competitors cracked. Saddest sight of all was the collapse of Hogan. Tied with Palmer at four under par going into the last two holes, Hogan landed in the water on the 1 7th for a bogey. On the 18th, the old mechanical man made a pitiable mechanical mistake: he lifted his head on a putt, topped the ball and suffered a triple-bogey...
...Fireless Cooker. In Pacoima, Calif., arrested on suspicion of shoplifting a dressed chicken, Gene Woods explained that he put the bird under his shirt to keep it warm...
...most part, the admissions responsibility is one of control, of "keeping the lid on the pressure cooker" as one dean phrases it. There is general agreement about the kinds of students Harvard wants to come here, but the difficulty comes in preserving a balance of types, keeping serving a balance of types, keeping everyone financially afloat, and preserving the philosophy of "opportunity for all" which keeps Harvard a national college. It involves controlling the pressures of mounting applications, rising tuition, alumni fathers, and beefing up the football team...