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Knowledge of the other person is essential to good giving, but here, as in other areas, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The information that someone is a music lover is insufficient. Unless his exact tastes are known, it is fatal to give him a recording (he is bound to have or to hate the Callas version of Tosca you have chosen). One ready but unfortunate way to avoid such pitfalls is the all-purpose gift. And even here, care should be taken; the generally safe basket of gourmet food may play havoc with a dieter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE ART OF GIVING | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...advertises a postage-stamp-size, transistorized "007 Spy Transmitter" that can pick up whispered conversations and broadcast them to a conventional radio receiver located nearby. The 007 is powered by a tiny nickel-cadmium or mercury battery that will last for 60 hours. Another Continental bug looks like an exact copy of a telephone microphone. But substituted for that mike in a standard telephone, it operates indefinitely on the phone's own current and transmits both sides of any telephone conversation to a special receiver as far as 400 ft. away. Continental also offers a 4-in. dart transmitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Everybody's Got the Bug | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...second time by forcing him to accept substandard wage. Again he argues from history: "Was not one of the great gains in the progress of civilization the conversion of taxes in kind to taxes in money? The elimination of the power of the noble or the sovereign to exact compulsory servitude...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: Draft Debate | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...that the Institute has asked their interns to participate in forth-coming visits of honorary associates, although the exact method of participation and the time have not yet been determined. This is an outgrowth of the Institute's new policy of obtaining a wider range of students to give the associates' conferences greater depth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YD's Set Up Internships With 'Liberal' Legislators | 12/15/1966 | See Source »

...cases are permanently sealed shut to protect the contents, Mrs. Lee insisted that every one be a working model, with miniature doors that open and shut, lights that go on and off, windows that go up and down. Each of the studies shows the victim and his surroundings in exact scale, one inch to the foot, and they are accurate down to the smallest detail, even to the wool stockings that Mrs. Lee knitted herself...

Author: By Gerald M. Rosberg, | Title: A Colloquium on Violent Death Brings 30 Detectives to Harvard | 12/6/1966 | See Source »

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