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...Water Supply, Gas and Electricity Department churned out stickers admonishing: DON'T BE A DRIP−SAVE EVERY DROP. To save as many drops as possible, the city began enforcing stringent−and widely ignored−restrictions on the use of central air conditioning in offices and apartments. Though 110 inspectors fanned out to enforce the curb, the city issued a summons to only one offender−the landlord of the local FBI office. The Water Department nabbed another kind of offender: the Parks Department, which was caught wet-handed sprinkling golf greens in dead of night...
...market has dropped from 4% to 1% in the past four years. And the future looks equally frosty. In an effort to cut costs, Good Humor, which enjoys by far the largest slice of the mobile ice cream pie, has stopped dispensing napkins with its novelties. And letting droopsicles drip all over party dresses will hardly melt the opposition...
Louis Armstrong, 64, took his golden trumpet-blew-and the Wall didn't come tumbling down. Never mind. It was a mighty blast anyway. Cheering throngs of East Berliners, from the youthful hip to the Party drip, shelled out a capitalistic 15 to 25 marks ($3.75 to $6.25) apiece just to soak up all that jazz. Playing to packed houses on his four-week trip behind the Iron Curtain, Satchmo neatly muted the inevitable questions on race and politics ("Some of my best friends are Southern whites," he grinned) and gave the Volk encores and encores of Blueberry Hill...
...stroboscopic studies of dancers. And even Du champ's greatest folly-dropping pieces of thread on the canvas and varnishing them where they fell-dramatized the importance that chance plays in painting, and seems an extraordinarily lucky hunch to a generation familiar with Jackson Pollock's drip paintings...
Time was when a surgeon needed little more for an operation than his kit of instruments and an assistant to drip ether onto the gauze held over the patient's nose and mouth. But since technology has taken over, today's operating theaters contain surgical teams numbering a dozen or more specialists controlling batteries of instruments from heart-lung machines and artificial kidneys to monitoring devices recording every thing from pulse and breathing to brain waves...