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...inserting a quarter, he gets a five-minute jet stream of water and detergent through a high-pressure hose that he uses to spray the car. Another dime gets him a packet of lintless paper towels with which to dry the car, and yet another dime turns on a vacuum cleaner for the interior. Though quick and experienced washers can get away with one quarter, most find that it takes two or three to complete the job properly, also find that they need a bit of agility to keep their clothes dry. But whatever the system, it is cheaper than...
...getting into instrument boxes. But how? Insect Ecologist Alvin Fleetwood Shinn was called in to investigate. Dressed in white coveralls, rubber boots and gloves, and carrying a radiation survey meter, he prowled the forbidden woods and soon identified the culprits. Hidden among the monitor instruments, sometimes even plastered on vacuum tubes, were dozens of mud nests built by wasps...
...their size, the power-pushing cylinders are first cousins of the fragile vacuum tubes that glow in TV and hi-fi sets. But for all their futuristic appearance, they are a long reach into the past. They deal in electricity that always flows in the same direction-the same direct current that Thomas Alva Edison used in 1882 when he built his first primitive power system in downtown New York...
Canvassers will stress "immediate issues" in urging people to register, according to Byron Rushing '64-5, one of the project leaders. "You can't register people in a vacuum...
...Think of the noises we hear every day-vacuum cleaners, dishwashers, telephones, buses, fire engines-why shouldn't they be in pictures?" asks Venetian-born Marina Stern. Though this follows the logic of pop art, she denies that she is a pop artist: "Pop art accepts everything. I'm more of a satirist. I like to get a little dig in. What pop art has done is to release all of us to be playful. Abstract expressionism is so serious. Two years ago I wouldn't have dared to make paintings like these, and no gallery would...