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...Dial-an-appliance" household equipment. Developed by Westinghouse, it enables a housewife who is downtown shopping to start dinner before she starts home: she simply telephones her home, then by dialing additional digits turns on the oven, sets it to cooking the roast. Vacationers heading home after a two-week absence can telephone their air conditioners en route, find the house cool when they arrive...
...breath of the loo last week made a vast oven of north India, sending aloft choking clouds of dust that turned skies the color of tarnished brass. Delicate animals at New Delhi's zoo were shipped off to the mountains to beat the heat, and hordes of humans had the same idea; many queued up all night at railway ticket offices to buy seats for the few train coaches that were air-conditioned. City employees demonstrated angrily for khuskhus curtains-spongy grass screens that cool the air when sprayed with water -for their office windows; municipal officials...
...only from coins but from currency up to $5. Bellringers Restaurant in suburban Chicago, which once served only cold dishes and fried items, recently added twelve meat dishes, 20 casseroles and five hot sandwiches to its menu-without adding a kitchen. The secret: precooked foods warmed in an electronic oven, similar to airplane meals. On the Indiana turnpike. Interstate Hosts' chain of 16 restaurants serves $4,000,000 worth of such meals a year. Boasts Regional Manager F. D. Gibbons in the horrible jargon of his trade: "We don't have cooks in our restaurants -just people...
...date of life-sustaining equipment for spacemen, Stapp's Aeromedical Laboratory sealed Metzger away for seven days and nights. Using only as much power as solar batteries would provide, the experiment tested water-disposal and odor-removal systerr other devices ranging from a thermoelectric refrigerator to a tiny oven built to heat toothpaste-type tubes of mashed potatoes, vegetables and turkey...
...social punishment. Labor leaders estimate that in the last several years at least 50 workers have been sent to Coventry for one breach of union solidarity or another. The treatment can be tragically effective. In 1956 a railroad engine driver named Jack Heginbotham put his head in a gas oven after living in silence one solid year. Says another victim: "I have seen grown men standing still and doffing their caps as I passed by to show me that as far as they were concerned I was dead...