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...speech impediment that tripped the distinguished tongues of Demosthenes, Aesop, Aristotle, Virgil and Winston Churchill. Demosthenes, so the story goes, cured himself of stuttering by stuffing his mouth with pebbles and competing with the roar of the surf. He may have had something. A Detroit physician, Dr. Marvin E. Klein, 33, reports remarkable results with an instrument that fills the stutterer's ears with the sound of a waterfall whenever he opens his mouth...
Bedtime Story. The Klein "speech rectifier" includes a tiny microphone that is worn over the larynx. Activated by the wearer's voice, the mike turns on a pocket-size generator that transmits the sound of gently rushing water to receivers plugged into the ears. While he is speaking, the wearer hears the waterfall, which muffles the full range of his voice. As soon as he stops speaking, the device automatically turns...
Some experts envisage the cassette explosion as only one phase of an upheaval in education, home entertainment and communications. The performing arts might become economic for the first time. McLuhan and Paul Klein, NBC's ratings vice president and philosopher of the future (TIME, May 25), foresee a decline of textbooks and suspect that network TV will be reduced to producing little more than sports and news. Klein also maintains that cartridge marketing plans and, in fact, cassette converter units are already 20 years out of date. The solution, he says, is cable TV (which perhaps 75% of Americans...
...spell of a crusading Nixon. By 1956 he had joined Nixon as an advance man and within four years, he was chief of the advance men in the presidential campaign. "I labeled him the chief of the frogmen because he and his crew were always hopping about," says Herb Klein. "His wife collects artificial frogs even...
Ultimate in Zip. The wearer need only decide how much or how little she wants to reveal; fasteners will get her there in a flash. Sportswear Designer Anne Klein, determined "to give the customer the ultimate in zip," has done so with the ultimate in zippers-one that is so cleverly concealed by the material that the slash appears as if by magic and not by the mechanical gnashings of a hundred metal teeth. To ensure greater visibility, Klein styles feature side closings, and those that do not ride low on the hips lace like a corset above the waist...