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...tubes and last almost indefinitely, will put electronics to work in "many fields which the electron tube has not been able to serve . . . We should not be surprised to see electronic appliances find their way into the home. Air conditioners, using electronics, eliminating motors, blowers and compressors, and therefore noiseless, may lead a mighty procession." ¶In industry, "wherever danger, remoteness or discomfort preclude the presence of a human observer, the industrial television camera can take his place." ¶In education, "schools . . . may employ their TV sets to bring talks and demonstrations to the entire school or to selected classes...
There is a "flying-saucer gun" which shoots whirling plastic disks high in the air ($1); a noiseless "space ray gun" of plastic molded around a flashlight...
Insurance & Teletypes. To handle the flood tide of newsmen, half the space off the floor of Convention Hall has been set aside for press rooms. Flanking and in back of the speaker's platform, where the main press gallery is, 30 noiseless teletype machines will carry running stories as fast as they come from reporters' typewriters. Elsewhere in the hall are 45 other teletypes, a battery of wirephoto transmitters, and more than 2,000 telephone lines. At the Conrad Hilton Hotel, convention headquarters, is another big press room. This, plus the hall's equipment, will enable reporters...
...Editor Krutch considers Gray's letters "deservedly among the most famous which have come down to us"; but this is strictly a scholar's opinion. On the few occasions when Gray kicked up his heels his letters brightened, but for the most part they reflect exactly the noiseless tenor of his studious...
...boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r"; "The paths of glory lead but to the grave"; "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen"; "Some mute inglorious Milton"; "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife"; "The noiseless tenor of their...