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...situation has bred a new type of retailer, who caters to bankrupts and habitual bad debtors. Some of these retailers may be motivated by genuine solicitude for a man who has fallen on bad times. But many are taking calculated advantage of the fact that no bankrupt can go bankrupt again for six years. This means that in case of default, they can garnishee his salary (or repossess the purchase) without danger of being frustrated by a new bankruptcy action or forced to settle for a fraction on the dollar. In Chicago, where personal bankruptcy cases have risen from...
...mean to make a case for Billy as an Oxford-bred Harry Belafonte narrow-nosed Negro either. Billy has the drawl, the kinky hair, the broad nose and lips and I haven't the vaguest idea of what his education is, though I'd guess it's about high school level...
There were 47 shows in ten days. At each, there was the usual crush to get in; flowers fell from vases and were trampled under stiletto heels; ordinarily well-bred ladies pinned oldtime friends to the salon walls, picked their pockets for the proper credentials, and raced upstairs to jockey for front-row seats...
...electronics engineer, who raised his own son (now a 16-year-old Explorer Scout) in a Skinner box and custom-builds them under the trademark Aircrib ($335). To cut the price, Gray aims for mass production and dreams of the day "when half the babies in America will be bred in boxes." He adds: "Even if just the nuts buy it, there's still a sizable market...
...Manhattan's Dr. William Langford, it is not the box that helps or hinders so much as "the quality of the parent-child relationship-how much the child is taken out to be played with, the warmth in the family and so on." So far, most box-bred babies-there have been more than 400-seem to have had the right kind of parents. Among them: bright-eyed Debbie Skinner, 18, who hopes to enter Radcliffe...