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...stake, especially when faced with the recent financial troubles that have confronted Polaroid. However, it is important to note Mr. Palmer's pleasure and pride with the fact that its major distributor "recently tripled the salaries of its 124 black employees." While that is merely a molecule in a bucket, it is also crucial to realize that, because of the racist policies of the government and the white minority, black employees are severely restricted as to the type of job they may hold, and chances for advancement are almost non-existent. No black may ever rise to a position involving...
...teeth fixed. Harriet at first seems too kind and innocent to live. But her unreflective goodness amounts almost to genius. When Blaise's second family comes to light and he begins to dash about with one foot in the trap of matrimony and the other in the bucket of illicit love, Harriet takes the edge off the hostility-and the hilarity-by befriending the illegitimate Luca, who is seriously disturbed and possibly retarded...
...Brockton, Mass., calls "back-pocket sciatica." Gould, who described the disorder in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, first became aware of it when a colleague who made a large number of house calls complained that he suffered from leg pains while sitting in the confining bucket seat of his sports car. Gould could find no obvious cause of the discomfort but noticed that the doctor carried a bulging wallet in his hip pocket. He speculated that the wallet might be pressing against the sciatic nerve and suggested that the physician remove it. When...
...oyster fans--well, they're there, and delicious. Downstairs, a full range of seafoods, broiled and fried, and all fresh, greets the seafood fan. (The broiled dishes are especially good in garlic butter.) Most dishes are reasonably priced--lobster, however, is quickly going out of sight. And a bucket of steamers always makes a good, inexpensive dinner. The fish chowder is also well worth...
...York and Paris. With the backing of some young St. Louis businessmen and $2,000 from his own savings, Lindbergh ordered a plane built by Ryan Airlines in San Diego to his peculiar specifications; it was in effect one giant gasoline tank with wings, a propeller and a bucket seat. He named it The Spirit of St. Louis, and in May 1927 flew it to New York...