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Lights, however, should be the most popular item to get Sonuswitching, the company figures. Travelers will be able to phone and turn the lights on at night to fool prowlers, then turn them off later on. And then, of course, there is always the predatory bachelor anxious for scientific help. With Sonuswitch, he never has to leave the couch. When he wants to turn off the light, all he has to do is clap his hands. There is still a handy riposte available for a quick-witted prey, however. She can slap him hard, twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Products: A Clap of Light | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

Predicting the outcome of the Ivy League football race is an impossible task, as any fool knows. About the only point on which "experts" agree this year is that the League neatly resolves itself into two categories: the contenders and the also-rans. In the former group are Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, and Cornell...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: Princeton Battles Cornell In Crucial League Contest | 10/9/1965 | See Source »

...just another pronoun. After that, It became the most provocative two-letter word in the language-all because of her. She was Clara Bow, the ultimate flapper for the movie audiences of the '20s, grown too sophisticated for the synthetic, exotic Theda Bara ("Kiss me, my fool") and Pola Negri. Clara Bow, by contrast, was as fresh and authentic as the girl next door, only more so. She had enormous saucer eyes, dimpled knees, bee-stung lips and a natural boop-poop-a-doop style. She was the cat's pajamas, the gnat's knees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Girl Who Had IT | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

...intellect has pressured Los Alamos schools into keeping pace by adopting advanced curriculums, has placed a premium on educational excellence. Los Alamos children have heredity and environment on their side even before they start school. "They seem to be under some compulsion to get their education finished before they fool around with any of the problems of puberty," says School Superintendent C. W. Richard. Police records bear him out. There is practically no juvenile delinquency in Los Alamos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Mexico: The Suburb Without the Urb | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

...opens up to include you." Members, staff, even the bartender patiently introduce people to one another. A cozy fire burns constantly in the air-conditioned bar. Best of all, there are the magicians. The house maintains two strolling legerdemainists, but the member magicians themselves cannot resist trying to fool fellow pros and other guests. One or another of them is constantly dropping by different tables to request that someone "pick a card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightclubs: Some Enchanting Evening | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

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