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...Leftovers. The microwave ovens will never take over in restaurants that consider a meal something of an art as well as very much of a commodity; they sell best where speed and convenience count more than cuisine. Many restaurants, hotels, motels, hospitals, factory cafeterias, railroad dining cars, snack bars and hamburger stands are now turning to high-speed electronic ovens -and the ovens are even being installed in vending machines that serve hot sandwiches. Such electronic giants as General Electric, Raytheon, Litton Industries and Tappan are in the field, competing with at least three smaller firms. Sales...
PORGY AND BESS (RCA Victor) is another case of too much cake for the oven -this time with Leontyne Price towering over both score (excerpted songs) and cast (William Warfield, McHenry Boat-wright). The recording is rich, the singing is fine, and the livin' is easy-at least for those who can bear the thought of Price singing under Skitch Henderson's baton...
...named Thich Quang Due had spectacularly set himself afire in a Saigon street. Later the martyr's scorched remains were assigned to final cremation in a rice field outside the capital. But, as the priests told it, when the old man's ashes were removed from the oven, his heart emerged miraculously undestroyed-obviously the supernatural work of Buddha. Immediately, his fellow monks proclaimed Quang Due a saint...
...readers. The kids are tough little creatures. They learn to read, not because their parents or teachers want them to, but because they are interested enough to go on to the next page. They used to read excitedly about Hansel and Gretel pushing their grandma into the oven,* but the kids didn't go around afterward pushing their own grandmothers into the oven...
...merely the inconvenient hulk that cuts off the January sun at 3:30 p.m. and sends swimming pool loungers shivering toward the bar. But previously inaccessible Mount San Jacinto is soon to be a resort area itself. The world's largest passenger-carrying tramway will lift vacationers from oven-like Chino Canyon to a winter-temperature summer resort some 5,900 ft. above-from the California desert to the California Alps in 15 minutes...