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...Noiseless Verse. Poets of protest such as Evgeny Evtushenko (pronounced Yevgainy Yeftooshenko) have, in the past, been isolated from the vast, unlettered mass of Russian society. Today, through far-ranging recital tours and huge editions of their verse, they are reaching the widest, best-educated public in Russian history. The result has been a remarkable poetic revival. In theaters and student hostels from White Russia to Central Asia, overflow crowds listen to poets with almost religious fervor. On Sunday nights in summer, city squares echo to the liquid, incantatory cadences of Pushkin. Lermontov and. often. Zhenya Evtushenko. One good reason...
...greatest predator of them all, and these souls should be cautioned not to castigate themselves for what comes naturally. Others will say that live ducklings would have been more fun for our children to play with, but mothers and fathers, I suspect, will prefer this all new, noiseless, mess-free, more durable variety...
...Belts. The next major U.S. inventive breakthrough comparable to the transistor may well be the fuel cell-a cheap, efficient, reliable way of converting fuel to electricity with no moving parts. Some 50 U.S. companies are working on the problem; when it is solved, it will provide a compact, noiseless power source for propulsion, lighting, heating, may even bring back the electric auto. The ancient dream of man, individual flight, perhaps with a scuba-like rocket belt, is under serious development. The U.S. Army has awarded Bell Aero-systems a $60,000 research contract for a rocket belt, and Bell...
This week Guide's noiseless cash registers are ringing up drinks and entrance fees to a brisk rhythm, the music of Vibraphonist Cal Tjader and his jazz quartet (quickly convertible to a bongo-congo Latin quintet with the addition of a crack drummer named "Mongo"). Says Owner Guido: "We give the customers good jazz. The musicians we don't bother. We never walked around with big cigars and said, 'I'm Mister Black Hawk and won't you sit at my table, musician?' They can look right across the room when they play...
...central units in new houses) while putting out more compact, smoother-operating products every year. Thanks to miniaturization, the 1959 models of Admiral, Carrier and others are 50% to 60% smaller than in 1956. General Electric claims that one of its 1959 bedroom models is virtually noiseless. Westinghouse, Fedders, Emerson are putting out install-it-your-self "portable" models. York is packaging parts needed for installation with the cooler to reduce high and widely fluctuating costs of putting it in. As optional equipment. Philco is offering an "Ionitron" (price: $50) to charge the air with negative ions, which, says Philco...