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Moulinex is counting primarily on the appliance market's still broad potential: 59% of French homes have no refrigerators, 63% no vacuum cleaners, 67% no hot-water heaters. Many of the smaller appliances in which Moulinex specializes - electric food grinders, mixers, blenders, peelers and juicers -are equally unfamiliar to most French kitchens. Behind its slogan, "Moulinex liberates the woman," the company is increasingly selling the French housewife on le confort. Its product line is also stretching beyond the kitchen, now includes electric heaters, vacuum cleaners and a $3.50 hair dryer that is one of the world's fastest...
...Cover) Tied to a capsule by a 16-ft. tether, the first human satellite whirled through the vacuum of space at 18,000 m.p.h...
...before he truly conquers space. Circling the earth in a sealed and well-provisioned capsule has been demonstrated to be well within human capabilities, but the moon will never be explored, to say nothing of Mars and the other planets, unless fragile men learn to function in the outside vacuum where no earthborn organisms are naturally equipped to live...
Mosaic now publishes in a vacuum, and this issue in particular seems little more than a chance collection of stories, poems tracts, reviews, and articles. No single viewpoint or intent infuses all the contributions. True, the magazine is a "Jewish Student Journal" and most of the writers are Jewish, but this is not enough. Commentary is also "Jewish, but much more significantly, it is aimed at a sector of the liberal intelligentsia that considers itself highly aware and concerned, both politically and culturally. Mosaic certainly doesn't need an ideology. Nor should it pick a "theme" for each issue...
Died. John Hays Hammond, 76, electronics inventor who at the age of 23 set up his Hammond Radio Research Laboratory, over the years collected some 350 patents for inventions ranging from the prototype of the modern vacuum radio tube, bought by RCA for $500,000 in 1926, to the first radio-guided torpedoes, while pouring his considerable royalties into his Gloucester, Mass., home, a massive Gothic castle complete with moat, drawbridge, and a 10,000-pipe, 100-stop organ (he was no kin to the Hammond organ family); of hepatitis; in Gloucester...