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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, June 20. 1961
AIRBORNE LINGUISTS—A new DC-7C aircraft christened the "Clipper Jayhawker" carried 70 KU students and 17 faculty members and their families to Europe for the University's first summer language institute. The students divided into three groups upon arrival at Paris, one group going to Frankfurt/Main, another to Madrid, and another remaining in Paris. The students
will be studying French, German and Spanish during their nine-week stay abroad. The program was coordinated by J. A. Burzle, chairman of the German department, and Francis Heller, associate dean of the College. Prof. Burzle will instruct at the Institute, as will Prof. Reinhard Kuhn and Prof. Arnold Weiss. The KU group will return home on Aug. 10.
Got a Flat Tire? No Sweat Just Get Out the Can Opener
DETROIT — (UPI) — Spare tires now come in little aluminum cans designed to fit in the glove compartment of your car.
The cans are about the size of an insect spray container and are filled with gas and a latex compound. They eliminate the fuss and bother of fixing a flat tire.
If a motorist has a flat, he merely connects the can to the tire valve and the gas and rubber compound do the rest. The puncture is sealed and the tire reinflated in one operation taking less than two minutes.
The product — which costs about $5 — has been on the market little more than a month. Its inventor, Marvin Botwick of New Haven, Conn., said sales have been phenomenal.
Last year his firm, Consolidated Research and Manufacturing, came out with a spray which melts the ice on car windows, thus eliminating the old job of scraping and chipping clear a place to see in the wintertime.
Botwick said he is now working on a process for treating car windows to permanently prevent them from fog-
Orel Has Book On Victorians
"The World of Victorian Humor," by Harold Orel, associate professor of English at KU, has been published in an original paperback edition by Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc.
The book is in the new paperback line called Goldentree Books. Prof. Orel shows through his illustrated collection of Victorian writing that the Victorians, contrary to popular impression, did know how to smile.
Illustrations are reproduced from original texts and from cartoons in Punch. Selections represent many kinds of humorous writing.
Writers represented are Richard Harris Barham, Thomas Hood, Charles Dickens, Robert Smith Surtees, William Edmonstoune Aytoun and Theodore Martin, Douglas William Jerrold, Edward Lear, William Makepeace Thackeray, Robert Browning, Frederick Locker-Laminson, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Alfred Tennyson, Charles Stuart Calverly, W. S. Gilbert, Algernon Charles Swinburne, A. C. Hilton and Oscar Wilde.
ging. One major automaker now is testing the process, he said, but added it was doubtful if the fog-proof glass would be ready in time for new models this fall.
But Botwick's biggest push now is on his device to fix flat tires. He said he has set up enough production units around the country to manufacture 200,000 cans a day.
Botwick said the cans can be used on tube or tubeless tires. But they can't be used to fix blowouts, sidewall breaks or faulty valves, he said.
To complete the sealing action, the car must be driven as soon as the tire is fixed. In most cases of usual punctures, the tire may stay inflated indefinitely.
No Chefs, Please
WOODSIDE, N. Y. —(UPI)— One of the largest manufacturers of "ovens" has never had its product used in a kitchen. The "oven" has been used as a kind of incubator for delicate electronic parts.
The "oven" which actually looks like a small metal radio tube, is made by a watch company through its electronic division here. Some 20 missile and space projects currently use the devices, according to the company.
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Ten bids were submitted to the Board of Regents Friday on a new faculty retirement program.
Ten Bids on Faculty Retirement Program Submitted
the various companies propose in benefit returns for dollars invested.
Approximately $2 million worth of business a year is involved in retirement contributions that would be paid on a matching basis by the state and faculty members.
The regents appointed a sub-committee to obtain an analysis of the bids and to present a report at the Board's September meeting.
The committee is authorized to spend up to $5,000 for professional help in the analysis. The Regents said they will want to know what
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