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...with California-style fruits and vegetables that the boldest technological advances are likely to appear next. Scientists at the University of California at Davis have developed a lettuce picker with a sensing mechanism that "feels" each lettuce head to determine if it is ready for harvest. Similarly, an asparagus harvester is electronically activated only by stalks of the proper shape and size. For such products as apricots and olives, engineers are experimenting with shaking-and-catching devices already in use on prunes, peaches and apples; a mechanical arm clutches the tree and shakes it until the fruit drops into...
...problem with Ida Picker's Burnering, for my taste, is that its zeal outruns its craftsmanship. The concept is all there, maybe even a tentative first draft. But it has not yet been translated from thought into either English or stage talk, and the personal world it creates remains altogether too exclusive...
...converting dining rooms, junior common rooms et al. into ordinary theatres or close approximations thereof. Kay Bourne, the director of Burnering, uses a wood-panelled junior common wall for a backdrop, windows for entrances and exits, and a simple platform stage. Through imaginative, deliberate use of lighting, Miss Picker's hour long play is staged without interruption and with only...
...different wave length from Miss Picker's Burnering, which may have been my fault, or hers, or in all probability neither. But Harvard is a place where playwrights don't have to cater to anyone's taste, and a slicker place...
John F. Seegal: (picker of Detroit here last spring): It'll either be the Dodgers in six or the Orioles in five, maybe four...