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...L.B.J. library is monumental, with gently curved slabs bracing set-back façades that look a little like a drive-in movie's screen. The interior will be a vast, uncolumned hall enclosing a freestanding glass-enclosed bookstack faced with red-leather-bound presidential papers. The podium beneath it houses a 250-seat lecture hall and a 1,000-seat auditorium equipped with permanent TV installations, the necessity for which Johnson observed when he held a crushed press conference at the Truman library a year...
...million dollar motel, completely financed by the Harvard Trust, is expected to open early in 1968 on the 1.5 acre site formerly occupied by Richards Drive-In Restaurant. It will contain 203 guest rooms, a 200-seat restaurant, a rooftop swimming pool, and a two-level parking...
...TALKING COMPUTER. Burroughs Corp. expects to market a computer next year that will read its answers aloud. Electric impulses will vibrate the membrane of a loudspeaker, forming words. One use: a bank customer can go to a drive-in window and deposit a check in the computerized system, which in one second or so will announce the amount of his balance...
...magazine Cahiers du Cinema and the American Film Culture discovered the films of Samuel Fuller, they fell in love with them, and fell hard. Hard enough, at least, to set off a serious debate on a group of films seemingly made only to fill the second half of a drive-in double bill. Some people called fuller a genius, and others labeled him a reactionary cigar-chomping fraud. Even the New York Times devoted an article to finding out who Sam Fuller was and what kind of picture the made...
...thriller could do with a few less supposes, a few more surprises. Of course, J. Edgar Hoover's man Jones has an allergy to felines. He sneezes a lot as D.C. leads everyone a hairy chase over fences, under bushes, and through one hilarious mixup at 'a drive-in movie, cleverly avoiding the crooks' hideout until the very last reel. Meanwhile, eccentric comedy bits are supplied by Roddy McDowall, Ed Wynn, Elsa Lanchester and gravel-throated Iris Adrian...