Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night-crawler colony of summer artists numbers upwards of a hundred, living in various degrees of leisure from sublet Fresh Pond homes to park benches and sleeping bags. Its members have a particularly difficult lot: the coffee-houses and cafes are closed; the Brattle shows nothing but popular films; the banks of the Charles are too crowded for contemplation. And the bare bones of sustenance itself present a problem...
...foam-edged sickle of the reef of Rakahanga in the northern Cook Islands. They had already missed landfalls at the Tuamotus, at Starbuck and Penrhyn Islands. There was no option but to shoot the reef at Rakahanga in the hope of reaching the calm lagoon and the fresh water and food that lay beyond...
...your leave, sir." In the well-outfitted rooms, other cadets pored over manuals, searching for instructions on where to place skivvies in the gleaming walnut dressers, where to hang battle jackets behind the handsome sliding panels of their closets. Instead of commands from a bull-voiced sergeant, they got fresh instructions from a softly modulated public-address system, and instead of a bulletin board, they watched a panel of code lights that blinked out the kind of uniform to be worn for supper formation...
Wright eventually hopes for 1,000 couples, all faithfully recording intercourse on wall charts, all equipped with a contraceptive supply deemed sufficient for three months ("In case of emergency, just cable your name and address for a fresh consignment"). The venture's most useful aim is one never before achieved-nobody really knows the reliability of any of the more widely used contraceptives. "This is going to be an historical trial," Wright wrote happily to his guinea pigs last week. "It is probably too much to say that you will enjoy participating in it, but we hope it will...
...manufacturers' sales rose $1.1 billion, to $26.3 billion. New orders to manufacturers also climbed $1.3 billion to $26.3 billion. Meantime, the rate of inventory liquidation slowed considerably, a sign that the day is near when manufacturers and retailers will stop living off the shelf, start replenishing stocks with fresh orders. The book value of manufacturers' inventories dipped $400 million in July, far less than the $700 million drop in June. The figure was down to $49.8 billion...