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...room, $200,000 co-op at the corner of 85th Street and Fifth Avenue, overlooking the Central Park Reservoir. City officials promise tourist buses will mind the music and step lively when they drive past Jackie's new home; and the whole arrangement couldn't be handier for the family, since Peter and Pat Kennedy Lawford live on Fifth at 80th Street, Princess Radziwill (Jackie's sister, Lee) at 78th, Steve and Jean Kennedy Smith at 76th. Some Republicans have a toehold farther down, where the Nixons, Nelson Rockefellers, and Nelson's ex-wife Mary live...
Ever since the first Polaroid camera came out 16 years ago, Dr. Edwin Land, 54, the scholarly and reticent president of Polaroid Corp., has wanted to make it smaller and handier. Last week the Cambridge, Mass., company announced that it had found a way. It introduced a new camera that is lightweight (2½ lbs. v. 5 lbs. for other Polaroids) and not too much larger than the little 35-mm. camera that festoons tourists the world over. Any other company president might have wanted to do some personal boasting about such an achievement, but not publicity-shunning Edwin Land...
Despite the fact that compact cars are rapidly becoming less so and wide-screen movies more so, miniaturization still proudly rears its tiny head. Latest in the list of products that have grown smaller, lighter, handier...
...most purposes there are handier ways to communicate, but Dr. Tomiyasu has his eye on a notoriously difficult communication problem. When a missile nose cone or a spaceship slams down through the atmosphere, it surrounds itself with a sheath of plasma (hot, ionized gases) that repels radio waves. Space scientists well remember that during the most critical period of Colonel John Glenn's return to earth from his orbital flight, the radios of his Mercury capsule were blacked out for seven minutes by the plasma sheath. Laser light, if strong enough, can penetrate plasma, and Dr. Tomiyasu believes that...
...discovered last week that it had far more support than anticipated in keeping Red China out of the United Nations. After ten days of denunciation and debate, of palaver and politicking, the issue at last came before the General Assembly-and the U.S. won by a handier margin than last year...