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...many times a day and exposed to adult-polluted air. No psychologist can say whether the box helped or harmed them because none has been asked-to their parents, it seems obvious that they're doing fine. Mrs. Hope's verdict: the box is a boon to mothers because it cuts down on laundry and bathing...
Economically, there is no doubt that pay-as-you-see would be a boon to the cost-pinched TV industry. Of the 83 TV stations which have gone into operation since April 1952, an estimated 30% will run in the red this year; last year, no fewer than 38 construction permits for new stations were surrendered because of the bleak profit outlook. Black & white broadcasting has become so expensive that only a few of the biggest sponsors can afford more than a half-hour show; color TV will increase the costs. When the cost of Milton Berle's Tuesday...
...they have an insatiable craving." At the opposite end of the spectrum are compulsive spenders, who may become sick if they are forced to save or stop spending. Many of these, says Dr. Kaufman, were overprotected in childhood by an overindulgent parent who guiltily substituted money gifts for the boon of love. Usually one parent was strict, but the other overcompensated for his severity. Other compulsive spenders, who had neither money nor love in childhood, spend selfishly as adults to give themselves a substitute for love...
...that it would be welcome during reading and exam period. At the beginning of the next term, the hours' change could be provisional, depending on the number who continue to study past 10 p.m. For the crowded, hectic weeks ahead at Lamont, however, the extension would be a necessary boon to the undergraduate...
...house, thought it would be doing well to sell 5,000 copies. By now, the first Kinsey report has sold 250,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada, plus thousands in six translations. It outraged many moralists, infuriated not a few scientists who questioned its reliability, and was a boon to radio comedians, who found that Kinsey's name had become an acceptable synonym for sex. One spinster snapped back at Kinsey that his elaborate study only confirmed what she had known all along-that "the male population is a herd of prancing, leering goats...