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This unique auditorium consists mainly of several hundreds of tons of concrete roof in the shape of a spherical triangle, "floating" on three ball and socket type joints that allow it to wander a little when expanding or contracting. The diminutive walls have to be kept clear of the moving, self-supporting roof. Now swaddled in canvas and scaffolding, the structure looks non-descript in the extreme. But, undaunted by its present mud-pie look, R. M. Kimball, chairman of the building committee, expects "wonderful things" from the auditorium...
...Mercury is priced the same and looks much the same as last year's cars on the outside. The big changes are inside. Among them: new front shock absorbers and springs, an improved automatic (Merc-O-Matic) transmission, an easy-steering front-end suspension with a ball & socket joint replacing the old-fashioned kingpin assembly. But the biggest improvement is the engine. Instead of last year's 125 h.p. V8, the new Mercury has a completely redesigned V8, turning up 161 h.p., that engineers have been working on for five years and have tested for thousands of hours...
Cool & Dry. Westinghouse Electric Corp. showed off five room air conditioners, its first in eleven years, priced from $320 to $595. It also demonstrated a new electric dehumidifier that plugs into any 115-volt socket, removes up to 3 gals, of water from 10,000 cubic ft. of air each 24 hours, also doubles as a space heater in cool weather. Price...
...with the prefrontal lobotomy. in which a knife is inserted through a hole drilled in the temple, though he performed 624 such operations, most of them with Watts. Now he is a devotee of the transorbital lobotomy. in which approach to the frontal lobe is made through the eye socket (TIME, Sept...
...Coffee. A coffee maker that plugs into an auto dashboard socket has been put on the market by Technische Apparate Vertriebsgesellschaft, West Germany. The gadget signals with a whistle when the water boils, pours it onto instant coffee, cocoa or a tea bag with the turn of a knob. Price...