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...work? The Department of Labor last week issued an updated edition of its Dictionary of Occupational Titles, used primarily by employment counselors. The 5-lb. catalogue defines, and assigns a nine-digit index number to each of 20,000 job titles, including such esoterica as sword swallower (159.647-010), rock breaker (770.687-034) and brassiere-cup-mold cutter...
...human opponent tries to work out the secret by punching pushbuttons. Milton Bradley Co., which makes the gadget, supplies scratch pads for adults and slow-witted children, but self-respecting eleven-year-olds disdain these. The girl also does not bother with the relatively easy three-and four-digit problems. She plays at the rarefied five-digit level, which means she must hit on one out of a possible 30,240 combinations, and she keeps her notes in her head, the way the computer does...
...earth, or rather in earth?' I wittily enquired. 'Because of Bocuse,' they explained. 'In the gospel according to St. Paul, on page 258 of his newe book-the great French chef relays the recipe of his grandpere, to wit: bury the bird for two full days before the feast. Digit...
...Dengler each digit has an ingenious symbolic significance. One means, "I am part of the whole of life, which is one." Fair enough. But the others are more esoteric. Nine, for example, "stands for relationship to essence in the difference in the meaning when actualizing the spatially everpresent nature of life...
...First National Bank could not believe its calculating machines. Precisely $1 million in $50 and $100 bills was missing from one of the bank's subterranean vaults, and auditors kept combing the records to see if a bookkeeper had erred or a computer had skipped a digit. Finally, with much embarrassment, the bankers called the FBI to report that someone had made off with their greenbacks over the long, languid Columbus Day weekend...