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...Mecca were not enough, and the operators now promise bingo at least one night a week. Last week women began queueing outside one London hall at 7 in the morning to be sure of getting a seat for the afternoon games. The bingo bonanza has been an equal boon to depressed cinema owners; the Rank Organization plans to reopen a dozen shuttered film palaces and install bingo where once Bing reigned supreme...
...does to humans. Bathed in its lavender glow, leaves look dark blue-green, and Electrical Engineer Joseph Roland Morin, head of the team that developed Gro-Lux, predicts a great future for the off-color plant lamp. Long before it lights up indoor farms, it may be a boon to commercial florists. "In 20 years," says Morin, "you won't see any more conventional greenhouses...
Died. James Ford Bell, 81, a milling executive's son, who in 1928 merged four faltering companies to form General Mills, now world's largest miller, as President and Chairman from its birth until his retirement in 1947 made it a housewife's boon by marketing a pantryful of prepared foods (Wheaties) and baking materials (Betty Crocker cake mixes), later entered such diverse fields as industrial chemicals, precision instruments, high-altitude research balloons; of a heart disease; in Minneapolis...
...professionals in the $5,600 to $11,200 income group-they actually would drop sharply. "In the modern world," said Lloyd, "the work of the manager, the scientist, the technologist" must not be taxed out of existence. As if anticipating the angry protests from the Labor benches at this boon to a special high-salaried class, Lloyd announced a boost in the profits tax on industry (to 53¾% of a company's income), declared that firms could no longer charge off as "business expenses" on their tax returns automobiles worth more than $5,600, i.e., the Jaguars...
...chapel and religion courses. Liberal education is the primary task at hand, not religious indoctrination. About half the professors in each hold doctorates-well above the national average. Big universities, when raiding small campuses for staff, tend to steal researchers. The schools listed are largely pure teaching institutions, a boon to "late bloomers...