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...company owner, Skora has for the past 30 years helped pay the rent by treating drug, drinking and other behavioral problem cases with hypnosis. But he admits to a life-long addiction of his own: gadgets. One historic day six years ago, he repaired to his garage with an armload of automobile power-window assemblies and second-hand refrigerator motors worth about $2,000 at the junkyard. Three years and a psychic, $750,000 later (his labor, which he figures at $20 an hour), Skora had remade the mountain of junk in his own image and likeness, more or less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: A Better Robot? | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...remember my last year at Harvard. I had come up early for some reason and was sitting behind those huge vulgar cream pillars at Memorial Church or Appleton Chapel. Some new boy came across the Yard with an armload of records and a German helmet on his head. A group of freshmen were on the other side of the pillar...

Author: By Robert Crichton, | Title: Non-Traditional Class of 1950 Is an Intellectual Catch Basin | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

...asked to check out The Naked Ape. Responding to a Knoxville tavern owner's offer of a free supply of beer to the first coed who would pick it up in the nude, a shapely lass wearing only her makeup darted into the bar and with an armload of beer rushed out again to a waiting car. Two students staged a relay across a bridge in Portland, Me. At Princeton University, Charles Bell, a candidate for vice president of the class of'76, demonstrated his political flexibility by taking up streaking. His campaign slogan: VOTE THE STREAKER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Streaking, Streaking Everywhere | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

...only Lowell House has established a firewood service for the students in the House. The Lowell House Committee buys wood by the cord from dealers in the Concord area and distributes it to students for about $1.50 per "armload...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inadequate Fireplaces and Costly Fuel May Mean Cold Rooms During Break | 12/20/1973 | See Source »

...only other legal firewood vendor at Harvard is the Lowell House Committee. The committee sells wood to Lowell House residents by the armload, at cost...

Author: By Christopher B. Daly, | Title: Possible Fuel Shortage Spurs Sales of Firewood at Harvard | 12/4/1973 | See Source »

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