Most extraordinary passenger vessel since Robert Fulton's Clermont, the N.S. (nuclear ship) Savannah can circle the globe almost 15 times on a single charge of nuclear fuel. This floating demonstration of the peaceful use of atomic energy already is setting new performance records. The Atomic Energy Commission and the Maritime Administration built the Savannah to be the safest ship afloat.
Swedes like American products. In fact they like them so well that they buy nearly $50 worth a year for every man, woman and youngster. Per capita, few nations can match Sweden as a U.S. customer. * Buying American is typical of Sweden's commercial outlook. Each year Swedes buy increasing millions on millions of dollars worth of U.S. goods. Everything from machinery to fruits, from fuels to automobiles, from chemicals to tobacco.
Why not? Music by Muzak® is a great way to help people who work under stress.
It makes time fly. Noise and tension are reduced. Music by Muzak really makes a difference. And it helps in other ways too.
For instance, in a study involving 213 workers at a textile plant, 84.4% said the Muzak program breaks the monotony...and 78.8% replied that it aids them in their work.
How do you cool a ballpark and 46,000 red-hot fans? Houston does it by putting a clear-span dome on their new Harris County Stadium and applying the efficient energies of modern cooling systems. Friday, April 9, the Houston Astros inaugurate the new indoor field with an historic exhibition game against the New York Yankees.
You won't feel cramped or hemmed in aboard the JetStar. Even on long trips, big active men find plenty of room for comfort on this largest of corporate jets. There's space, too, for the tables, desks and lounge furnishings you choose, or for 10 airline-type passenger seats. And more room for galley, private lavatory, separate pilot's flight deck and a generous amount of baggage.
The remarkable new Xerox 2400 will he available.
A whole new breed of machine. A machine that knows no master. A machine that makes all the copies you want right from the original. A machine that makes copies too fast to be a copier. A machine that makes copies so simply it couldn't be a duplicator.
The new 2400 makes 40 copies a minute, 2400 copies an hour, of anything printed, written or drawn—from all colors —automatically.
There's Norman L. Battle, who needs the information on a computer tape in a hurry.
There's Nancy Havens, who went to the tape vault and was never heard from again.
There's Horace Cotton, who thinks he saw the tape in the hands of Don Walters, but won't swear to it.
Compassionate hospital design for Philadelphia
Ruthless removal of trees in Europe
The Economist's new mews in London
How to figure inflation in construction
Skyscrapers assume new forms
Editor Walter McQuade, A.I.A.
Research Associates Mary Jane Lightbown Jeanne Krause
A Hospital Designed to Comfort the Patients
The starchy, sanitary quality of the architecture of most hospitals often makes them oppressive to the sick. A warm and welcome corrective to this tendency will soon rise in Philadelphia, where a $4,200,000 hospital for the care of cancer patients has been designed deliberately to create a humane and appealing atmosphere.
I just couldn’t resist your product today because of the package. CCA Packaging Means: distinction, convenience, innovation, protection, inventory control, service Container Corporation of America Chicago 3
like this president who built his new plant in SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA Perhaps you know him. A sign on his office wall reads "Time is money — ours and yours!" This service-conscious president runs his business like clockwork, from ordering the raw materials to shipping the product on a "guaranteed arrival" schedule.
new 6000 SERIES Systems make "priority" a thing of the past
YOU CAN MAKE EVERYBODY "FIRST IN LINE" — because the new CONTROL DATA® Series 6000 Systems do things differently than any other computers available today. Their massive memory and incredible speed allow simultaneous access by a number of different users with different programs.
An active business is constantly changing. It broadens its products, expands its market, hires more people, gains more customers, faces more competition. And with these changes come problems.
It may ride on air cushions rather than on rails, and be driven by jets or even rockets. A number of far-out ideas are competing for serious development. And industry is studying a big new market.
By 1980, unless something drastic is done about it, traffic in the populous northeast corridor of the U.S. between Boston and Washington will have reached an imbalance and impasse of monstrous proportions. Already, superhighways in key metropolitan areas are reaching congestive saturation, though close to $2 billion has been spent on those in the corridor alone since 1945.
Feeding was such a mess until Westvaco had a doggone good idea Rover couldn’t care less about how his food is packaged—but Westvaco couldn’t care more. Proof: this unusual canine six-pack with a throw-it-away feeding tray for each can. Good idea? We might have an even better one for you. For more information on Westvaco [...]
