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...growing blizzard of paperwork piling up on U.S. business, the country's 13,500 commercial banks are slogging through the deepest drifts. Last year, the public scribbled 14 billion checks-almost double the number of a decade ago-and by 1975 they will be writing 29 billion annually. Since the end of World War II, the number of bank accounts has risen 33%, commercial loans 113%, mortgages 290%, and consumer installment credit 850%. The answer to the spreading prevalence of paper is mechanization, and the nation's big banks have set up their own computer systems. For smaller...
...first five days, the weather held. "We are fine," Siegert scribbled on a piece of paper and lowered it to helpers waiting 600 ft. below. "What's lacking is champagne. We're thirsty." On the sixth day, a howling blizzard raked the north wall. The temperature plunged to 40° below. In the base camp, thermos jugs were hastily filled with hot soup and coffee. The climbers hauled them up, reported that the soup and coffee were "solidly frozen in the thermos" by the time they arrived. The blizzard lasted for 40 hours. When the skies finally cleared...
...supplied by army tanks, and nearly 300 snowbound communities in the Italian Apennines were cut off from their supplies. Three feet of snow covered Bulgaria, and in Greece army units roamed the countryside with hay for starving livestock. Ice clogged both the Mississippi and the canals of Venice; a blizzard snapped a power cable in the Bosporus, halting all shipping between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Along the frozen Danube, Yugoslav dynamite crews blasted lanes for boats and barges...
Spectacular Outfit. Every sort of blizzard gear was worn, but the most spectacular outfit was sported by Diana Wood, 35, pretty wife of Britain's Minister of Power Richard Wood. When an outbreak of power failures brought a storm of complaints to the Power Ministry, Mrs. Wood helped raise at least some temperatures by posing for the Daily Mail in her cold-weather costume: a turtleneck sweater, fishnet stockings, and skintight, black woolen knee-length panties...
...Discovery." Zacharias' committee soon became a nonprofit corporation: Educational Services Inc. At its headquarters in Watertown, Mass., scholars and schoolmen joined to loose a blizzard of physics-teaching aids-53 films, 75 paperback books, such cheap props as ping-pong balls and drinking straws. E.S.I. has gone on not only to launch summer teacher-training institutes, but also to rewrite U.S. engineering courses and elementary-school science. Last week the Ford Foundation handed over $1,000,000 to help E.S.I, surge ahead on all fronts. Its most ambitious plan yet: revitalizing the teaching of humanities, notably history and social...