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...been indulged in by many Americans for years, has now reached epidemic proportions. Behold! A hot-air grate, raised on a walnut stand, becomes "sculpture." A chamber pot leaves its place under the bed and appears-lo!-as a soup tureen. Fortunate is the man who inherits a 1912 Corona typewriter or an Atwater-Kent radio in plywood Gothic style. They are also lucky who have-squirreled away somewhere-cast-iron toys, lead molds, bubble-gum machines, wind-up phonographs, toy steam engines, pieces of farm machinery, embossed advertisements-in fact, any of the detritus of industrialism. It is wanted...
Trouble for Detroit. Nearly one-third of Japan's auto exports is sold in the U.S., where Toyota Motor Co.'s Corona and Nissan Motor Co.'s Datsun, both priced below $2,000, are now familiar sights. Last year, 110,000 Japanese cars-more than twice as many as in 1967-went to American buyers. Now two more manufacturers have entered the U.S. market. Fuji Heavy Industries is offering its low-priced $1,300 Subaru, and Honda, already known for its motorcycles, is pushing a $1,400 minicar. A third manufacturer, Toyo Kogyo, expects to make...
Harvard then lost a 29-13 decision to Corona Del Mar (Calif.), which remained undefeated, and won the national championship...
...colored, and that the "sunrise glow" he had reported from Apollo 8 indicated the moon may have a trace of atmosphere. "The only color that we could see in the universe from our vantage point was the earth," he said. The glow, Lovell now believes, was actually the corona of the sun, visible just before lunar sunrise. He also observed that "the stars don't even twinkle out near the moon," a strong indication that there is no lunar atmosphere...
Other speakers were Jerome Lettvin, M.I.T. professor of biology and electrical engineering, Kenneth L. Tigar, teaching fellow in German, film star Shirley MacLaine, Bert Corona, representative of the Farm Workers Union, and Richard Goodwin, political adviser to McCarthy