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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...
...fatal case of the bends, Leonov breathed pure oxygen for a while before he entered the lock. Now, enclosed in his space suit, he was still getting pure oxygen at just about the pressure that he would breathe it on earth. As air escaped from the lock, the vacuum of space reached into it like a monster's claw. The oxygen in Leonov's suit tried to expand, and the suit inflated like a balloon. The cosmonaut must have listened anxiously for the hissing of tiny leaks. But all went well; he flung open the outer door...
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...