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...treasured stories of biblical cunning. In Genesis, the patriarch Jacob outsmarts his parsimonious uncle Laban while tending Laban's flocks. First he tells Laban to cull all spotted sheep and goats out of the flock for safekeeping, then offers to tend the "monochrome" remainder (white sheep, black goats), taking only spotted offspring as his pay. Laban quickly agrees. Jacob sets about having the animals couple in front of peeled branches. They produce large numbers of spotted offspring, and Jacob becomes rich...
...system to find out which areas produce the most bookings, then directs its heaviest advertising to them. Each motel manager is expected to make at least five sales calls a week, visiting local civic and fraternal clubs to hymn the benefits of using his inn for meetings. Some managers cull newspapers for engagement announcements, and send bracelets and other gifts to prospective brides, along with a pitch to honeymoon at Holiday Inns...
...Basically the Trib is an exercise in inspired deskmanship. The paper has only one full-time general reporter of its own, and the core of the operation consists of five copy editors working with Weiss in crowded quarters off the Champs-Elysées. Six nights a week, they cull streams of copy that issue from 16 Teletypes, providing the Trib with a broad choice that goes beyond the Post's and Times's output. Material also comes from the Los Angeles Times and Chicago's Daily News and Sun-Times, in addition to a full range...
...this bed; it is the corpse of a philandering med student who has used it for a clandestine rendezvous. Next comes a series of further strange deaths among the medical staff. The hospital is in a flurry, the demonstrators are chanting outside, the slimy capitalist is trying to cull support for his encounter with the hospital director, the director is going frantic trying to stave off the demonstrators. Meanwhile patients are mislaid, the bookkeeper harasses a dying man to get his Blue Shield number, and Scott and Rigg are carrying on their own private tug-of-war over whether...
Duty and Reverence. Hampshire is run by President Franklin Patterson, 54, a softspoken, firm-willed former director of Tufts University's Center for Citizenship and Public Affairs. Appointed four years before the first students arrived, Patterson had ample time to cull 50 faculty members from nearly 1,000 applicants and decide how to spend a $6,000,000 start-up gift from Harold F. Johnson, a publicity-shy New York lawyer and Amherst alumnus...