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...rendered by Director Haines, the experience is like being sealed inside a demoniac color television set. The Magic Theater experiences convince Harry, in the words of the novel, to "see the ruins of my being as fragments of the divine." Lesser mortals would have just called the TV repairman...
...Springfield, Mass., railroad repairman, Abrams graduated 185th out of 276 in his class at West...
Died. Joseph Anthony Beirne, 63, president of the 500,000-member Communications Workers of America from its founding in 1947 until last June; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. When he was 18, Beirne (pronounced Burn) went to work as a telephone repairman earning 320 an hour; in 1937 he became president of a local affiliate of the National Federation of Telephone Workers; six years later he headed the N.F.T.W., and helped transform it into the C.W.A...
Despite its mushroom crop of high-rise reinforced-concrete buildings, the city today is a worse firetrap than ever. Ichiro Uchibaba, an auto repairman who, as a boy of eight, survived the 1923 quake and firestorm, says: "It's worse today-these 2,000,000 cars and 3,000,-000 kerosene stoves in Tokyo are potential bombs. They would cause millions of fires...
...worn on only one eye, improves color discrimination. Zeltzer and other optometrists have prescribed the new lens for some 50 men, most of whom report that they can now distinguish colors they have never before seen. One man, who was turned down for a job as a telephone company repairman because he failed color tests, has been retested wearing the new lens and accepted. As an added bonus, his girl friend has stopped criticizing his taste in clothes...