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...electric water pump, a new washing machine and a dryer. A television set, she says, is at the bottom of the shopping list. She would much rather have her three children explore the Yaak than vegetate before the magic eye. "Later," she says, "we'll buy a freezer, and after that a waffle iron. It's been a long time since this family sat down to waffles...
...created a kind of New Wave western, using simple realism as their strongest tool. They evoke it with sounds: a transistor radio in de Wilde's shirt pocket twanging hillbilly anthems, the slamming of a screen door on a hot night, the screak-screak of the ice-cream freezer on the back porch, the relentless whistling of the wind scorching in off the plains, the brutal whump of the springs of the Cadillac as it guns across the railroad tracks. They also evoke it with the black-and-white camera of Old Master James Wong Howe: Dr. Pepper signs...
...assignment was to find companies for Ford to acquire. Beck saw Philco as a company without the money to capitalize on opportunities, but with an enviable record of scientific development: the first TV set that would operate without a roof aerial in 80% of U.S. homes, the first horizontal freezer compartment in the top of a refrigerator, the hermetically sealed compressor system for room air conditioners that has made possible today's compact air conditioners. Ford followed Beck's advice to buy Philco, put Beck in as president...
...cops also use dogs to help them track down criminals; one German shepherd, specially trained to sniff out narcotics, recently led officers to a cache of marijuana hidden in a meat freezer beneath ten pounds of frankfurters. The techniques are unusual-and so are the results: last year the average crime rate in U.S. cities with a population of more than 25,000 rose 2%; in St. Louis, however, it dropped a surprising...
...prewar product line, Matsushita has added a staggering array of new products including television sets, tape recorders, hearing aids, mechanical massagers, electric pencil sharpeners and electrically heated trousers; now he is developing a home freezer and a line of computers...