Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TOMORROW'S WORLD: FEEDING THE BILLIONS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A land-clearing project in the Amazon jungles, an Idaho fish farm, and large-scale production of protein-rich algae in California are some of the experiments under way to expand the world's food supply...
DEATH IN LIFE: SURVIVORS OF HIROSHIMA, by Robert Jay Lifton. As he sifts the recollections of 75 persons who lived through the first atomic bombing, an American psychiatrist discerns the effects of large-scale disasters on behavior...
...motifs. New plastics and transistors are responsible for many of the objects' compactness. Advanced technology and electronics also play a role in dozens of esoteric devices, ranging from a portable medical ventilator (replacing the old iron lung) to a child's styrene-and-aluminum balance scale. Royal's stylishly minimal duplicator, Honeywell's computer console and Pitney-Bowes's addresser-printer are a visible reminder that thou sands of offices already boast such good-looking equipment...
ARCHITECTURE HOme in a Barrel Vault New museums of late have tended to verge on the grandiose: the columned temple form of the Los Angeles County Museum, the mighty, circular Hirshhorn Museum planned for Washington, D.C., which rivals Hadrian's Tomb in scale. One museum in the process of being formed has decided on a different style. It is Fort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum, due to open in 1971, and backed by an estimated $75 million left by the late Texas millionaire Kay Kimbell (groceries, oil, insurance). The architect: Philadelphia's Louis I. Kahn...
...overwhelming. Within the first two hymns on the program they showed themselves as capable of a perfectly controlled triple piano as a gigantic, masculine fortissimo. As choruses go they are not large, but when they open up they sound like a stereo system turned to 11 1/2 on a scale...