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...HOUSEWARES: Old French decanters ($7 up), chafing dishes (from $15), wine racks (from $10), English pewter, Danish salad bowls and cheese boards. There are plenty of electrical gadgets for pushbutton minds; electric can openers and knife sharpeners (around $29.95), bun warmers ($9.95), silver polishers ($29.95), even electric pepper mills...
...Pushbutton Montgomery Ward vending machine, now being tested in Chicago's La Salle Street Railroad Station. The 7-ft.-tall dispenser offers 53 different items, picked for appeal to commuters and travelers, ranging from muumuu nightgowns and panties to flashlights and pocket compasses. The machine accepts any amount of money up to $9.99 in any combination of coins or bills, visually records the amount paid in, returns the proper change when the customer has completed his shopping. Says the machine's attendant: "People are still a little bit afraid of it. They don't seem to want...
...Pushbutton Files. A filing cabinet that operates like a Ferris wheel, delivering files within reach at the push of a button, has been introduced by Diebold, Inc. Because it stacks records to the ceiling, the 16-shelf model can hold as much as six four-drawer cabinets in half the floor space. Price...
...becoming standard operating procedure, an Air Force C-119 cargo plane equipped with a grappling hook last week snagged in mid-air a third Discoverer satellite - a 300-lb. gold-plated capsule that had traveled more than a million miles in polar orbit before being parachuted near Hawaii upon pushbutton command from a control room in Sunnyvale, Calif...
Moving silently across 21-inch radar screens, the dime-sized blips traced the passage of jet aircraft overhead. At electronic consoles shirtsleeved men spoke into pushbutton telephones, scanned slender strips of coded paper punched out by high-speed computers. Thus, in a bombproof building south of Oakland, Calif., the U.S.'s most modern air traffic control center last week went into operation...