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...such total upheaval, we refused to study television as a medium, and had no understanding of its effects. McLuhan's latest book, The Medium is the Massage, is an attempt to boil down his theory (which has already been boiled far too often) and to provide the definitive skeleton key to media study...
Lear's Fool. No one follows this pie-eyed piper, and he follows no one; his most faithful companion is the skeleton of a woman, the least troublesome kind of female from his point of view. In every town he knows the jails, the madhouses, the cantinas and the churches. He wears rags sewn with tiny bells, each of which tinkles a note that in his mind symbolizes the special vice of each place he has visited. He is a spiv, and his roguish capacity for survival unites him with Ulysses, Tom Jones and Huckleberry Finn. Yet Pito remains...
...allowed to put off service until after graduation. Some 3.2 million men would find themselves classed 1-A if this system were adopted today, which is about twice the number needed to fill the military's needs. A lottery could be used to choose men from the pool. A skeleton Selective Service, based in Washington, could keep track of draft-age men in case they were needed for a general mobilization...
...novel, three-dimensional fluoroscopy machine was displayed by General Electric. A complex welter of mirrors, polarizing filters, lenses, an image intensifier and a two-cathode X-ray tube (see diagram), G.E.'s Stereo Fluoricon shows a patient to his physician as a green 3-D image, "like a skeleton with its organs hung inside." Other X-ray machines and sonar beams have produced similar 3-D effects, but previous processes were too cumbersome or time-consuming to be easily utilized. G.E.'s machine can do the job in a few minutes, thereby cutting the time the patient...
...stucco homes and pastel-colored housing projects have a neat and ordered look that does not accord with the Eastern idea of slums, the Watts Negro feels even deeper frustration than Negroes elsewhere. Unemployment rates are high, fatherless homes are common, lawyers and doctors scarce. Served by a skeleton public transportation system and often unable to afford a car, the Watts Negro is among the most isolated...