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...last resort for frustrated bug planters is a special mike attached to a sharp spike; driven through the wall, it vibrates with the surface on the far side. But, like esoteric radar beams that pick up the vibrations of distant window glass, spike mikes are apt to be defeated by stray noise unless conditions are perfect...
...world in which we all find ourselves it is possible to think of Harvard's plumbing as a kind of storm drain of light in a very dark cesspool, and I must confess I sometimes do just this. But I also know that the figure is not really an apt one, for Harvard's pipes and drains, praise God, have never been severed from the broad sewers of city and state and are certainly not so now. Instead, they are rather intimately involved with all the pipes and drains of Cambridge, and, indeed, of Massachusetts...
...senses that for him it is better to reserve the expression of physical love until he is ready for a deep devotion is sometimes made to feel inadequate by his friends, his dates, and the stories be hears. But he needn't. His pattern in one which is particularly apt to foster a life of high satisfaction and achievement. Benjamin Spock...
...seems more a college professor or successful businessman than the leader of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization. In conversation and speeches, he is soft-spoken avoiding fire-eating rhetoric. But he is persuasive. Instead of the catch-phrases by civil rights leaders. Wilkins is more apt statistics or recount historical anecdotes. When he demands action on civil rights, he never shouts "We're not asking any more, we're going to take our rights"; he is more likely to speak of the test that the problem poses for democratic institutions...
...recent survey by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. shows that the average college man spent $387 on clothes last year, compared with only $265 for members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, who were 15 years older on the average. For another thing, the young man is apt to be fad-prone...