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Besides being far to the left of the average voter, Hughes is willing to answer questions with a forthrightness peculiar for a candidate for public office and is intent upon campaigning on issues rather than personalities. For these reasons he will be fascinating in the sphere of ideas but probably a failure in the world of practicalities...
...theme show, sponsored by the State of Washington, is its most sophisticated exhibit. A sort of Jean Cocteau fun house, it is a floating grotto of aluminum cubes that gives visitors a 20-minute visit to "a world already possible but not yet here." In a huge plastic sphere called a Bubblelator, 100 visitors at a time are lifted into the cubistic caverns above, there to shuffle through a labyrinth of 3,600 aluminum cubes, and be exposed by light, sound projection and three-dimensional devices to a dreamworld tunnel of love that involves them "emotionally with the future...
...fantastic sphere of a child's imagination--a world upside-down--offers ample material for an artistic enterprise but is rather difficult to make appealing to an adult mind. Miss Siegl's triumph is to achieve this feat with highly pleasing results...
Instead Piccard designed a free-cruising "underwater balloon" which he named a bathyscaphe.- It had a small, thick-walled steel sphere to resist the pressure of the depths and a thin-walled hull filled with light, almost incompressible gasoline to give it buoyancy. For cruising, it used electricity from storage batteries to drive a small propeller...
Economic policy has been intensively geared to the development of heavy industry and agricultural production. But although gains have been made in the industrial sphere--in 1960 industrial growth exceeded the Communists' own expectations--there are often agricultural crises. According to correspondents, Hanoi, the capital, is more drab and more desolate that Saigon in the South; more drab even than before the Communist takeover. But then in South Vietnam American economic aid has been concentrated on providing consumer goods which temporarily make the living standard relatively high. In the North consumer demands are being sacrificed to building heavy industry that...