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...Gilels comes here not as a Soviet representative but as an artist ... as a symbol of the world's artistic unity." Thanksgiving morning was purely routine in the mansion of Washington's Hostess-with the-Mostes' Perle Mesta, until her curious houseboy spotted a strange pushbutton in the kitchen, touched it. Soon, in answer to the robbery alarm, Perle, unprepared for an impromptu party, was visited by a horde of uninvited guests-six uniformed cops, two detectives, two alarmed men from the alarm company. Ever the soul of aplomb, ex-Minister to Luxembourg Mesta excb...
...Angeles Industrialist Robert McCulloch (power mowers, chain saws) was near completion after a year's construction. Big reason for the dream house's high cost: gadget-mad Bob McCulloch's departure from mere reliance on ordinary home appliances into pioneering a sort of householder's pushbutton paradise. Items: 1) beds that spring up and away from walls for easier sheet-tucking, 2) two bars with refrigerated drawers for glassware, perpetually cold ice buckets, automatic bottle-delivery tubes, 3) a tennis court sunken completely below the annoying swath of desert winds, 4) a swimming pool with surrounding...
...Packard boosted horsepower from 275 to 310, making its engine the most powerful yet announced. Other features: electric pushbutton shifting, a new nonslip differential for better traction...
...Raymond Loewy, in favor of a car that more closely resembles those of the Big Three. President James Nance thinks that an independent auto cannot compete by radical design, must be built to look like other cars. Packard offers minor changes in grille, hood and chrome, and a pushbutton transmission control mounted on the steering post...
...cars, which will come out in mid-October, represent a $175 million face-lifting job on the 1955 models. Chief body change: high, straightaway lines on the rear fenders and bigger taillights. In addition, all lines will have a new four-door, hardtop model, pushbutton selectors on the dashboard for automatic transmissions, "lifeguard" door latches to prevent doors from popping open in accidents, and optional seat belts. Plymouth will have a new, higher-powered engine. Fanciest gadget in the line is a "Highway Hi-Fi," a CBS record player that can be mounted just below the center of the instrument...