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Using the binary number system represented by the dots opposite the planets, it can be concluded that the three dots above the female's raised arm represent the number six and probably indicate that the alien race has six-fingered hands. Finally, the bracket at the lower right seems to measure the height of the adults and is labeled at mid-point by the binary number eleven. Because the only length that the senders and receivers know in common is the 21-cm. wave length of the transmitted signal, it can be assumed that the adults are eleven...
...about sizes. "Most stores call you small, medium, large or extra large." she says, "but in our shop you're Petite (size 16 to 20), Coquette (size 221 to 261) or Mademoiselle (261 to 321)." Anything larger ranks in the Duchess class. Nancy herself is in the Mademoiselle bracket, and she has ordained that all her models and sales personnel must be at least a size 16. "We never show our clothes on skinny models," she says. "If the models are a size 10 or 12, how am I to know how it will look...
There are approximately 31,000 potential voters between the ages of 19 and 35 in Cambridge. Despite a population decrease of 7000 since 1960, there has been a 45 per cent residency increase within the 20-25 age bracket. The new voters, if they register, could constitute an estimated one-third of Cambridge's electorate--at a time when the entire nine member City Council and six member School Committee are up for grabs...
Like anyone in the six-figure bracket, Quarterback Fran Tarkenton of the New York Giants has tax problems. So the business-minded scrambler played hookey instead of football in the first pre-season game because the Giants management would not give him a large loan (paying interest on such a loan while putting the money to work is one way to beat the tax man). With the Jets' Joe Namath hospitalized by a knee injury, it appeared for a while that pro football fans in New York would have no first-string quarterback playing for them this fall...
...casualty commission sees no evidence that a peak has yet been reached. During the next ten years, the young survivors will be entering the age bracket at which cancer rates ordinarily begin to increase sharply. The doctors plan an even closer watch on their health...