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...whoosh, pop and grind of thousands of fanciful contraptions echoed through Manhattan's cavernous Coliseum. The occasion was "Patexpo '69," a show designed to match up 300 inventors of new products with the men who can market them. As the visitors saw, modern man's ingenuity has lately produced a gun that fires a net to enmesh would-be muggers, skis with wheels for schussing on dry land, a timer that rations children's television viewing, tongs that carry melons without bruising them, and a keyless electronic lock that opens when hidden pressure points are pushed...
...debate, for example, was set off when a government censorship commission recommended that "if in telling a story it is relevant to depict a passionate kiss or a nude figure," moviemakers should do so. After all, the commission noted, Indian directors never hesitate to feature bump-and-grind girly dances so provocative that they "may almost be called the performance of a unilateral act of coitus." The argument impressed few Indians; in a recent poll, 75% opposed kissing and nudity in films-this in the land of the Kama Sutra and the world's most erotic temple carvings. Buddha...
...Coach Getchell feels his job entails much more responsibility than just coaching. "I think seports ought to offer the boys an opportunity to get away from the grind of Harvard Square." he said. "Here the players get a chance to leave their books and get to know the other people on the team...
...many oil tankers already have been, that DDT would be enough to slow the photosynthesizing micro-plants of the oceans. These plants produce ninety percent of the oxygen in the atmosphere. In as much time as it took us to breath the remaining oxygen. It would all grind to a halt once...
...France, the term la rentree does not refer only to spacemen plunging back into the earth's atmosphere but also to vacationers returning to the daily grind from their month-long August break. This year, re-entry for millions of Frenchmen was as rough as it ever was for an astronaut in his red-hot cap sule. For none was it more painful than President Georges Pompidou...