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This Haarlem is in The Netherlands, and from there came Catharine Ladders, 21, last year's Miss World, who will become the bride next year of Hip Swinger Chubby Checker, 22. The future Mrs. Ernest Evans (Chubby's real name; the stage handle was chosen in frank imitation...
Hilton's hotel rooms are growing larger (minimum: 11 ft. by 14 ft.) and hallways, which bring in no money, narrower. Most Hilton lobbies are kept purposely small and bars large so that loitering guests may kill time at a maximum profit to the management. Automation is used wherever...
No Hands. If the word resists such straightforward treatment, the computer consults a dictionary of up to 300.000 words recorded on magnetic disks or tape. If the troublesome word is in the recorded dictionary, the computer is told how to hyphenate it in about eighty one-thousandths sec. If not...
Looming up out of the verdant, time-resisting fields of rural France like a grotesque invader from outer space, the great factory hums mechanically about its business. Indifferent to the handful of humans who keep watch, a complex of electronic controls selects silica, alkali and lime from giant bins, mixes...
If the first motive - "thumbsucking without the thumb" - is predictably Freudian, the second is quite practical. The sound waves produced by humming are far more effective than the low volume would indicate. This is because humming is a "purer" tone. "When a person hums, he can blot out most of...