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...Lyndon Johnson's Washington, there is a growing awareness that such problems can be solved only by fostering more creative interplay among the different levels of government. Usually, government is compared to a neatly tiered three-layer cake-composed of national, state and local levels. In fact, as the late University of Chicago Professor Morton Grodzins put it in a 1960 report of the President's Commission on National Goals, it is more like a marble cake, full of unexpected whorls and inseparable blendings. "As colors are mixed in the marble cake, so functions are mixed...
Since late last year, the silver-short U.S. has been forced to mint silverless "sandwich" quarters and dimes containing a central layer of copper between two thin slices of copper-nickel alloy. Now another Government agency has suggested a more direct solution: find more silver. To aid prospectors, U.S. Geological Survey scientists have designed and successfully tested a "silver snooper," a device capable of locating silver deposits buried as deep as three feet below the ground. By shooting a stream of neutrons into the earth, the snooper turns the silver temporarily radioactive, causing it literally to signal its presence...
DENNY ZEITLIN is both a pianist and an M.D. in psychiatric training who likes to analyze his music ("I attempted to build layer upon layer of tension to generate an organic shape"). In Live at the Trident (Columbia), he plays standards and some pieces of his own in a wide variety of moods and forms. Although he pays allegiance to Ornette Coleman as the most significant jazzman of the decade, Zeitlin himself plays it much safer and at times seems to be simply entertaining at the cocktail hour...
Carbonless Paper. Microencapsulation was first used by the National Cash Register Co. in 1954 as a means of producing carbonless copying paper. One sheet of paper was coated on the back with a layer of microscopic capsules containing one chemical; the copy sheet was coated on the front with another chemical. When the two pieces were inserted in a typewriter or Teletype machine, the force of the keys hitting the top sheet broke the capsules, releasing the chemicals they contained. While the typewriter ribbon supplied ink for letters on the top sheet, the combined chemicals made an inklike copy...
...produce a single consumer end product; now it makes dozens, including sheets, towels, blankets, stockings and draperies. The industry also has prospered as a result of imaginative research. For example, Burlington Industries, the largest of them all (1965 sales: $1.3 billion), sells thermal-lined draperies with a thin layer of acrylic that effectively absorbs cold drafts that sift in through window frames. Possible products now undergoing final tests in Burlington labs: a carpet woven with stainless steel filaments that will eliminate static electricity; a new drapery lining that by chemical action can control the amount of light filtering through...