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Kurosawa in the raw is not everybody's meat. Not since Sergei Eisenstein has a moviemaker set loose such a bedlam of elemental energies. He works with three cameras at once, makes telling use of telescopic lenses that drill deep into a scene, suck up all the action in sight and then spew it violently into the viewer's face. But Kurosawa is far more than a master of movement. He is an ironist who knows how to pity. He is a moralist with a sense of humor. He is a realist who curses the darkness-and then...
When the first Mariner capsule soft-lands on Mars, the multivator will be tossed out at the end of an electronic umbilical cord. After settling its tripod feet firmly on the Martian surface, a miniature vacuum cleaner will suck dust into a thin-lipped opening in the multivator's base. As the dust filters through the multivator's 15 tiny chambers, it will stick to their adhesive-coated walls. Then the chambers will be automatically sealed and filled with water from a small external tank...
Even babies notice the difference. As they suck in the milk, the plastic dispenser contracts; the bottom draws into the hollow of the top to prevent excess air from seeping in. "Since there is no intake of air," says a Denver nurse, "the infants cry less, sleep better and are better satisfied." Studies at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan showed that 98% of milk samples from Beniflex bottles met safety standards, while only 92% of glass-bottle samples checked out as well. Because there are far fewer chances for contamination or human error, says one hospital research report...
...They chew through plays and they chew through films and they chew in trains," complained the London Daily Mail. "They suck lollies through Macbeth and Hamlet, and they while away Tennessee Williams with the chocolates with the scrumptious centers." The Mail's complaint was not another anti-American outburst, but a cultural critique of the world's most ravenous candy eaters: the British. Unfazed by calorie counts, the English last year ate an average 8 oz. of candy weekly, nearly double the sweet tooth of any other European country and well above the 5.6 oz. a week...
...Francisco, will generate slightly more than 1,000,000 kw. of heat. For producing electric power, says Hammond, there is no present need for anything larger. But he is sure that the monsters he has in mind can be constructed without trouble. A 25 million-kw. distilling plant would suck in a river of sea water and gush out i billion gallons of fresh water a day at about 10? per 1,000 gallons. This is enough for a city of 4,000,000 people, and the cost is just about what New York City pays for water brought down...