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...school junior, began running a bulldozer on the site of the district's first public high school, which the students are building. Mai Viet Phuong, 20, organized hog co-operatives among the district's farmers. Standing in red clay soil that squished over his sandals, Luong Van Tron, 20, a law student, recalled how his pals kidded him at first about stooping to such "cheap" labor; now eight of them have joined...
...Learn-A-Tron." Many "instructional kits" have also come out. Biggest one is First Adventures in Learning, a $69.95 package consisting primarily of 16 thin books-each dealing with such basic concepts as sizes and shapes, time, numbers and color-and a rather flimsy Learn-A-Tron plastic testing device. Parents insert rolls of simple pictures and questions into the Learn-A-Tron, then read the questions and check the child's answers. Example: one picture shows three geometric shapes, with the underline: "Which is the triangle?" The set, now used in some Head Start programs, will be sold...
This is called Golf-O-Tron, price:$8,500. Five Golf-O-Tron centers are currently in operation in the U.S.,where players have a choice of five courses at $1.50-$5 an hour. Golf-O-Tron-which already has a competitor called Golfo-mat-is doing a brisk business abroad, especially in Japan, where golf, introduced by General MacArthur, is high in status and low on courses...
COLOR TV SETS with 19-in. tubes will soon be on the market for less than $1,000. Columbia Broadcasting System is now making its new "Color-tron 205" picture tube, the first color tube to be mass-produced. A CBS-Hytron plant will be turning out 10,000 tubes a month by September for Motorola (which will use the tube in its new $895 and $995 sets), Sears Roebuck, and CBS's own sets...
...company to do the billing. But now Phonevision has several alternate methods. One uses the coin box; another uses a gadget which would unscramble the TV picture when set to the right combination. Cards with the combination would be sold for each show by dealers or vending machines. Skia-tron Electronics & Television Corp.'s Subscriber-Vision works by means of punched decoding cards inserted into a device...