Word: detectives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...POVERTY of the F.T.C.'s performance is strongly argued. The F.T.C. fails to detect many violations because it relies mainly on individual consumer complaints filed with it by mail or by Congressmen. It monitors T.V. and radio advertisements only rarely, and has no ghetto investigative teams. The individuals who are presumably to register complaints often do not know they have been deceived or where they can find redress. Further, only rarely does the F.T.C. challenge large corporations. It prefers to tackle small companies whose practices, less important to consumers, have less political leverage...
...rate of 2,000 a week, and had to be carted into "readers' " offices in big wicker baskets. Most could be dismissed with a scan of the first few pages, but editors had to watch for glued and upside-down pages farther on -writers' tricks to detect unread pieces...
...company has become the world's largest maker of electronic measuring devices. In the postwar era of computers, television and solid-state circuitry, its sales have grown to $269 million annually. It is a rare U.S. TV repair shop that does not use Hewlett-Packard equipment to detect picture-tube defects...
...liberalism. Dean Ford finds the source of our "destructiveness" in the tradition of Voltaire's "ecrasez l'infame." I think he would be more accurate to recognize our debt to Rousseau's refusal to accept the false culture Voltaire proposed--through D'Alembert--to introduce into Geneva. For I detect in Dean Ford's article an unwillingness to consider seriously the possibility that much of bourgeois culture and much of the culture of the university is fraudulent. I find such a stance as blind and unacceptable as he finds our refusal to bend our values to the prevailing university winds...
...researchers, there are many suggestive similarities between scrapie in sheep and multiple sclerosis in man. Poskanzer has suggested that MS may be a late manifestation of a childhood infection similar to that of non-paralytic polio. Gajdusek sees a striking resemblance between Aleutian mink disease and a lethal congenital detect in partially albino children...