Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...population. It would sprout in 50,000-people installments on a still-secret site in the countryside "where the air is still as God made it." Only by this kind of leap beyond the suburbs, Levitt persuasively argues, can the urbanizing U.S. remain fit to live in as it doubles its present physical plant over the next 35 years. To solve the job problem, he has been dickering with the heads of several major corporations that could put factories in his city. "I have no intention of retiring," says Levitt. "My life is a vacation, and rest...
...Faculty Club, talk about their students and teaching and settle down summer after summer to a little work on the old thesis, others think of themselves primarily as graduate students, take as little work as they can afford (hopefully two or three sections of the same course), fit in a little teaching between long days and nights in libraries and laboratories, pick up the Ph.D. in June and move on to jobs of $9000-10,000 a year; most of us, no doubt, chart a confusing course between these two full-time roles and somehow manage to work...
...companies were forced to agree to cut out promotion gimmickry and slash prices by 20% on one brand in each of the three major sectors of the suds market: white and blue detergent powders and soap powders. The companies can still market their other brands as they see fit, but the board figures that the new two-year experiment will, by reducing their sales revenue, result in less advertising-and lower prices-all around...
Plainclothesmen may soon be armed with a new model that telescopes to fit into the pocket, extends to full, firm length at a flick. General Ordnance even offers a plastic billy that does double duty: the company's new incapacitating spray can be shot out of the handle...
Advisors complain that the boys do not really need their counseling. One says, "With Challenge, school, recreation programs and Boy Scouts, my advise couldn't fit me into his schedule." For the program to work the participants would have to be selected more carefully and better integrated into their regular Challenge classes...