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Esoteric Future. The hover principle has equally good prospects in industry. British Hovercraft is producing hover pallets, air-cushion platforms that can be used to move heavy industrial loads. In a recent British Hovercraft demonstration, for example, a 41-ton machine tool on a hover pallet was easily pushed several...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Hovering Closer to Success | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

Engineers foresee even more esoteric uses. They have already designed a hover kiln, in which pottery is suspended over a moving conveyor belt by the hot gases used to bake it. And they are attempting to perfect a hover bed for badly burned patients who would actually lie on a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Hovering Closer to Success | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

Uncrossed Legs. The prices for a hostess are as aristocratic as the girls, ranging from $31 to $42 for an eight-hour day. Most people who can afford it find it well worthwhile. Not only are the ladies of H.I. extremely attractive; they are also smartly turned out in red...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: On Renting a French Aristocrat | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

In a bare brick building a mile from the Square up Garden Street, the staff of the Harvard University Press every year sifts hundreds of esoteric manuscripts and publishes some 150. The Press's titles are diverse, and the six-fold increase in sales over the last two decades is...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: The University Press: An Unwanted Child That Has Grown Up on Its Own Initiative | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

From experts, Schaub got all the help he needed on the obscure pharmacodynamical properties of succinylcholine chloride. As an anesthesiologist, Coppolino had had the opportunity to use it frequently on surgery patients to relax their muscles. Schaub proved to the jurors that it was also used on Carmela, injected into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Tracing the Untraceable | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

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