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Reporter Mill wrote a special article to explain the Harvard custom of hissing. He said Sanders Theatre could be described as a "snake-pit," and thought an "anti-his-ta-mine" would help cure the problem. In any event, he observed that Barnett "seemed to calm the situation with a masterful address...
...This thing is a crusade with me," says John M. Gray, a Long Island 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...
Considering the expense involved, truck buyers are a lot fussier about what they buy than car buyers, and they get results faster. Ford and Chevy offer 1,000 different variations, and almost every truck turns out to be custom-made. G.M.C. dutifully mixed batches of lavender paint until a florist customer was satisfied, and has bowed to truck owners' new efforts to keep drivers comfortable by putting in reading lamps over adjustable bunks in sleeper cabs. White's Autocar division recently put in a seat with 16 different adjustments that give the driver a choice...
...turned the doctor's novel into a fully developed screenplay, successfully inventing many scenes to fulfill, rather than simply fill out, the story. It was a very nice piece of work, and when the Perrys tried to get the backing of a major studio, they were not-as custom would have it-turned away icily by the crass boobs of Hollywood. They were just turned away. It lacked size, and the great paradox of movie financing is that it's easy to milk fortunes out of Hollywood for high-budget stupendaganzas, but next to impossible...
...United States seems to have inherited not only the mantle of British leadership in Western affairs, but also Britain's custom of being beastly to one's friends and sporting to one's enemies. If we were ever to behave toward those whose purpose is to bury us the way we behave toward the NATO allies, the peace movement would be up in anguish crying that the skybolt was falling...