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...worth. New "efficiency" units, which are also frost-free and have an energy-sparing design and insulation distribution, use only 1,155 kwh. per year for a 17-cu.-ft. model. If a dollar bill will not fit tightly when a refrigerator door is closed on it, the door gasket is loose, the appliance is losing its cool, and a trip to the hardware store is in order. Price of a new gasket: $10 to $15. Long, languorous contemplation before an open refrigerator is especially wasteful...
Then there is a parade, and Wiseman consciously uses all the craggy-face-against-darkened-skies cliches to film it. Basic Training ends with a drum major pumping his arms like a human gasket, which only reiterates what the film's been demonstrating all along: that the army is a goalless, reciprocating machine...
...positive that whales communicate by ultrasonic signals that sound rather like "a kitchen faucet with a leaky gasket." Indeed, hearing is the whale's indispensable sense: his eyesight is on the way to becoming obsolete, and he has no sense of smell. But Dr. Scheffer cannot explain what part of the whale produces that sound, or how. He knows that the whale is capable of "caregiving behavior" to the wounded within the "family" of 30 or so in which whales travel. Still, in the end, he is not certain how social or even how intelligent the whale...
...Tertre-Rouge turn directly in front of Ludovico Scarfiotti's speeding Ferrari P3. Scratch one P3. The second P3 went out with a broken gearbox after only ten hours, and the last of the Ferrari factory prototypes ground to a stop six hours later with a blown head gasket. With Fords running one-two-three and no more challengers in sight, Team Manager Carroll Shelby ordered a slowdown. Then Beebe got an inspiration. To make the inevitable Ford victory all the more impressive, he decided to stage a deliberate dead heat between the leading Mark Us-No. 1, driven...
...France, where kids barely out of diapers often start taking a thimbleful of diluted wine, Chafetz' proposal would stir only some Gallic shrugs, but most Americans popped a gasket. Did he not know, asked one of his listeners, that drinking is illegal in most schools? The beverage laws, scoffed Chafetz, "are absurd." "Alert your school boards to the dangers of this program," cried Mrs. Fred J. Tooze, president of the W.C.T.U. Mrs. Jennelle Moorhead, national president of the P.T.A., called the idea "outrageous." Iowa Governor Harold E. Hughes, who freely admits to an alcoholic past, said...