Snowshoes For Auto Wheels Make Winter Travel Easy
WHEN the deep snow made ordinary auto travel impossible for a farmer living in an out-of-the-way district of the upper Snake River Valley in Idaho, he ingeniously overcame the difficulty by attaching what he terms “snowshoes” to the rear wheels of his car.
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“I’ve Kept My Beauty, Despite Motherhood” —Says Ida Schnall
An Interview by Graham W. Desbrow
ONE of the oldest fables among old wives’ fables is that, after a baby or two, a woman ceases to be a girl. She becomes a “matron”—usually identified by a flabby condition of the breasts, a pendulous abdomen, and a rather luxurious accumulation of embonpoint. Read the rest of this entry »
Attend the kind of parties Mother never told you about!
It’s not that Mom would keep secrets from you, she knows better than that. It’s just that the Fashion Wagon idea is so new, she may never have attended one of our parties. You relax as your Advisor creates a style show that reveals today’s “beat” in fashion and savings Read the rest of this entry »
Getting a Line on the Aurora
ON A clear, moonless night a diffuse glow or a well-defined arch of pale pearly light is seen low over the northern horizon. Gradually the light grows brighter and presently long beams shoot up in great fan-like sheaves. In ghostly procession they shift back and forth across the sky. Read the rest of this entry »
TV Moves in on 3-D — Camera Sends Two Pix, Eye Sees One
TV has invaded 3-D. On test programs, ABC has alternately telecast scenes as they would be seen with the left and the right eye. A rotating disk—half clear plastic, half mirrored—is set up before the camera (above left). A direct shot is taken through the clear plastic; then an image, bounced to the mirrored half by a second mirror three inches to one side, is photographed. Every 60th of a second, a picture appears on an alternate tube of a twin-tube receiver (above right) and is projected through its own polaroid filter onto a screen. A viewer with polaroid specs sees one picture with one eye at a time, but the brain holds the image and fuses it with the next one.
Tank Maneuvers Controlled by Radio
Developments in the mechanization of the army is the installation of radios in tanks for the transmission and receipt of orders. Control of tanks in action, since they were first introduced by the British during the World war, has been at once an important and difficult task, hitherto performed by officers who walked beside the tank and signalled with flags—a duty both dangerous and unsatisfactory. Read the rest of this entry »
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