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...That custom may soon be amended if the ladies in question have their way. A committee of 40 of the solicitors has asked Zurich's city council for a longer workday. The committee would like the streetwalking period to begin earlier, at 5 p.m., allowing the women three hours of voluntary overtime in which to solicit their "guests" on the street. Included in the committee's 24-page petition is a survey conducted under what must have been unusual circumstances. Polling 100 of their clients, the scarlet ladies discovered that after a day of trading pounds, francs...
WILL SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME, the bright red advertisement asks in mock irritation, WHAT A PERSONAL COMPUTER CAN DO? The ad provides not merely an answer, but 100 of them. A personal computer, it says, can send letters at the speed of light, diagnose a sick poodle, custom-tailor an insurance program in minutes, test recipes for beer. Testimonials abound. Michael Lamb of Tucson figured out how a personal computer could monitor anesthesia during surgery; the rock group Earth, Wind and Fire uses one to explode smoke bombs onstage during concerts; the Rev. Ron Jaenisch of Sunnyvale, Calif, programmed...
...N.C.C. missionary boards stress close collaboration with Third World churches. Nonetheless, the conservatives are becoming far more sophisticated in anthropology and far more respectful of the peoples and cultures of other nations than they used to be. In Bolivia, evangelical missionaries even steeled themselves not to object to the custom of the Ayoré tribesmen of killing their firstborn and burying old people alive...
...Dennis Lynch, 50, the former mayor of Pawtucket, R.I., one of the highlights of the Christmas season is taking his wife and seven children to visit the Nativity scene in a downtown park. But in order to keep alive the family custom started by his grandfather, Lynch has had to form a private group to purchase the crèche from the city and take over the cost of maintaining it. A federal appeals court ruled last month that Pawtucket's city-funded crèche, and others like it, violate the First Amendment clause prohibiting the establishment...
...bonds replaced more frivolous gifts in the early '40s, as the shadow of global war fell over Harvard. Cambridge shops advertised bargain rates for all types of uniforms. Tailored to the individual needs of each fighting man, these custom-made uniforms had served on "land and sea with distinction in five wars...