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...steel and aluminum roll-up ladder, 2) a self-shaking mop, 3) a pocket signaler that pages the wearer when he is being telephoned. 4) an electrowriting machine that uses telephone wires to transmit facsimile handwriting and sketches, 5) an automatic merchandiser that dispenses clothing, makes change from dollar bills, 6) an electronic system linking an airline's ticket offices throughout the U.S., 7) a cart for big-chef barbecues, 8; a plastic balloon building, 9) a 50-ton log stacker, 10) a tree crusher, 11) a transistor radio as small as a sugar cube, 12) a language-translating...
...Poplin jackets, sloppy-Joe sweaters, and colorful tops designed to provide a public front for the Bikini wearer...
...before that institution went for Keynes and Laski. With a somewhat jaundiced eye a contemporary remembers him there at 20 as "a student of economic sciences, a member of an exclusive club of whisky drinkers, a dancer of the tango, a playboy, a reader of Adam Smith, and a wearer of the arrogant colored vests introduced by Wilde and Disraeli." When he got home, he turned the family hacienda into a lucrative model of science and mechanization, went back to economics as a director of Peru's Reserve Bank, making it into a modern central bank. He dabbled...
...business is the American Optometric Association, which last week had sent out to members 50,000 copies of a frank, sensible booklet, "What Everyone Asks About Contact Lenses." Key points: no matter how well fitted, the contact lens is a "foreign body" in the eye, so the wearer must "learn to tolerate this intruder just as one must learn to wear false teeth." This may mean a week or two of varying discomfort, for some patients a month or more. Rare indeed are the happy individuals who can pop lenses into their eyes, feel comfortable right away, and keep...
...least two-thirds of all contact-lens wearers are women, and most of these (in the 15-40 age range) take to them for vanity. A few, such as models and actresses, need them for professional reasons. Among them: Metropolitan Opera Soprano Patrice Munsel (TIME cover, Dec. 3, 1951), Hollywood's Deborah Kerr, Ann Sothern, Debra Paget. Since the lenses can be tinted, they came in handy for turning grey-eyed Nina Foch (a regular wearer anyway) into a brown-eyed Egyptian in The Ten Commandments...