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With vacant lots all but gone in the downtown areas of many big cities, more and more land-starved developers are literally buying up thin air. The technique is to acquire the right to use the open space over such low-slung installations as roadways, railroad yards and schools, and...
Penchant for Pennies. American Home has grown faster than ever under William F. Laporte, 54, a somewhat shy and self-effacing salesman who succeeded Brush as board chairman in 1965. Son of a Passaic, N.J., banker who was a longtime friend of Brush, Laporte became an American Home sales trainee...
A minute gesture or item, such as the pencil reproduced in actual size on this page, can sometimes acquire great value. That is just what happened when a voluntary organization asked G.I.s in Viet Nam what their most-wanted items were. Those needs were modest-such things as a pair...
All this grumbling obliquely suggests that the excellent 16mm equipment of the New York and California film schools cannot-substitute for solid thought and style. Personal commitment and expression through film-making is harder to acquire than technical proficiency and, to date; is still sorely lacking in the winners of...
Can learning be transferred chemically from one animal to another? Scientists have been arguing the question since 1962, when University of Michigan Psychologist James McConnell reported that untrained flatworms could acquire knowledge by feasting on trained worms. Using rats and mice, some researchers have achieved experimental results that seem to...