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Eastern Industries. Microwave beams count traffic coming in from all directions and transmit the total to a central brain at the intersection, which automatically switches lights to speed up the heaviest flow. Price: about $1,000 per intersection, plus installation...
...syndicate out to another. For excitement, there is net raiding by night, skiff jousting on the black northern water with searchlight and rifle. In the end. Ryan loses what he wants (Jan Sterling) and gets what he deserves under an icefall. Sadly, the picture fails in 85 minutes to transmit a satisfying image of the "thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice." The icecap of the world, as shown here, is no more awesome than a refrigerator head in need of a good defrosting...
Some of them unjustly blame the newspaper critics for that state of affairs, though, as Atkinson points out: "The only power in the theater is on the stage; it is put there by authors, actors and directors. The critic can only transmit that power to the public." In any case, the critics themselves are as uneasy about their influence at the box office as theater people are. For this influence. Producer (The Remarkable Mr. Penny packer) Robert Whitehead thinks the theater it self is often to blame. Said he: "We blow up the critics. We make them important. Two days...
Seated at an International Business Machines Corp. electronic computer last week, a girl who understands not a word of Russian punched out the message: Mi pyeryedayem mislyi posryedstvom ryech-yi. In a few seconds the mechanical "brain" spewed out a translation from Russian to English: "We transmit thoughts by means of speech...
...book. Dulling the whole effect of Love Is a Bridge is a degree of maturity in the author which is almost distressing to find in a first novel. The mellowness with which Mr. Flood tells his story, with absence of any intensity in episode or character, does not transmit the feeling inherent in the novel's conception. He describes even the most chilling events of his story--Henry's breakdown, the ruin of his first marriage, the dry-rot of his second--with a placidity which seems to confide to the reader that all will work out happily...