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HALL OF SCIENCE. Only the basement is completed, but Atomsville, U.S.A., may become the favorite of the younger set. For one thing, the entrance is only 5 ft. high, and adults are reduced to watching on closed-circuit TV. For another, kids can press buttons and twist knobs to their heart's content. The sea and the human brain are explored in other displays...
HOUSE OF JAPAN. Shoeless, seated at a low table, the happy diner is served hot sake, then a kimonoed doll of a waitress kneels and cooks sukiyaki. Meanwhile, entertainers in the colorful costumes of samurai, geisha and fishermen dance every thing from kabuki to the twist, and an Oriental chanteuse, Momotaro Akasaka, sings sonorous torch songs...
...automobiles, a nostalgic bit of Americana-the Indianapolis 500 is mainly a dice with disaster. Drivers come and go, cars change, engines get bigger. The one constant is danger. In 54 years of Memorial Day racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 56 people have died. But nobody has to twist a driver's arm to compete. The prospect of instant fame and fortune is inducement enough -even though he knows, as Eddie Sachs once said, that "in the long run, death is the odds-on favorite...
...duty as a consultant during World War II, the Korean war and the Suez crisis, and he is now a part-time Pentagon adviser. Last week Cities Service Co. named him chief executive to replace Burl S. Watson, 70, who remains chairman. A stocky, straightforward man with a whimsical twist, Warren treats his promotion lightly ("You can't take yourself too seriously"), but concedes that he always had his sights on the top job. Warren started as a roustabout in the West, moved around the country as a geological scout and engineer, rose to become a senior vice president...
...certain amount of resistance meets another with a different resistance. An examining physician can press on a patient's belly to feel how big his liver is, but he cannot get a clear outline of the liver, let alone tell how thick it is. With a simple twist of the dials, the ultrasound scanner will pick up first the near surface of the liver, then the back surface, and measure the distance between them, thus telling the doctor how much the liver is enlarged...