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...President's grandfather. With his white hair, benign tremor and penchant for quoting the Romans, Byrd seems more like a Senator from the 19th century than one from the 21st. He has never seen MTV. He refers to the camera in the Senate chamber as "the eee-leck-tronic eye." But due to his fierce opposition to the Iraq war, Byrd at 85 has become an Internet icon with a rash of young and liberal admirers, which is ironic given that Byrd fought civil rights in the '60s and, as is often noted, briefly joined the Ku Klux Klan. Once...
...luxuriate in private. Inside our houses (try not to call them "homes") is where we let ourselves go with our art collections and our furniture and our closets crammed with Huntsman suits, Sulka shirts and Lock hats. It is also perfectly O.K. to amuse yourself with elec- tronic equipment. Nothing ordinary, of course. One of my friends says he uses a small computer to help him with his racing forms as well as with the stock market, and quite a few have closed-circuit television to communicate with the nursery and the servants' wing...
...cured of the lust for money and you want to produce something-well, heavy." Other experimental rock composers seem motivated more by a restlessness to burst out of conventional molds. San Francisco's Steve Miller, who is writing a suite that will combine Stockhausen-influenced elec tronic music with rhythm-and-blues, says simply: "I don't dig three-minute sections." Classical and Jazz Composer Bill Russo, director of Chicago's Center for New Music, puts it even more decisively: "The music had two directions to go-to get decadent or get longer...
...home of tomorrow. Two new advances: Bendix last week unveiled an automated machine tool with an electronic brain that "reads" coded information on punched tape, automatically guides a 50-ton milling machine turning out precision aircraft and missile parts; National Cash Register this week marketed a "Post-Tronic" banking machine that electronically posts depositors' checks, virtually eliminates the possibility of a clerical error. In another few months one Midwest state will even field-test an electronic control system to steer and otherwise operate cars in a stretch of superhighway...
...toys are less complicated. General Molds & Plastics Corp. has a "Brainy Bug" ($5) that keeps on the move, automatically changing direction when its "feelers" touch an object; Bedico of Germany has a helicopter ($28.95) that is directed by a two-levered control box; Science Electronics, Inc. has an Erec-Tronic Transistor Set ($14.95) that gives young engineers a choice of nine different crystal and transistor radio circuits that can be built without soldering or tools...
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