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...closing number, Miss Washington, stacked like the melon gallery, appeared in a mass of red taffeta. She pulled her rip cord, and there she stood-after all, it is the nation's capital-not quite nude. An aw-gee string. A suggestion of red taffeta there-there and there...
...VENETIAN BLINDS. A centuries-old and efficient design, the Venetian blind has been tampered with by improvers, who have divided it so that top and bottom can be tilted separately (who needs it?), and the adjusting cord run through a snap spring. Result: they...
Electric typewriters are steadily taking a bigger share of the typewriter market, but none of them can match the unusual trick of the new Smith-Corona portable, introduced last week; it can keep right on typing after its cord is pulled out of the socket. The source of its cordless energy is a compact, efficient power supply that has excited the inventive brain of U.S. industry: the nickel-cadmium battery. This versatile product can be recharged in an ordinary electric socket, can be made tiny enough to power a hearing aid, and is good for a total life of three...
...portable nickel-cadmium-powered consumer products that have helped to boost sales of the batteries to $20 million; the industry expects its sales to be $200 million within a decade, considers the rechargeable battery its equivalent of the electronics industry's transistor. "Now man is fettered by a cord," says Research Engineer Frank Kamen of Chicago's toolmaking Skil Corp. "We want to release his bonds...
...about at the stage where color TV was five years ago." The expensive raw materials and relatively low-volume production at present keep prices of the batteries well above what most consumers like to pay (Black & Decker's battery hedge trimmer costs $99 v. $39 for a cord model). But as demand grows, the industry looks for mass production methods to come into use and to bring drastic price reductions...