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...still carry Page One display ads, charge three to six times as much for them as for inside ads. The result is that much valuable news space below the fold is filled with ads. What space is left is largely wasted by oversized headlines, and a make-up as haphazard as if the type had been fired from a blunderbuss...
...most parts of the U.S., doctors can do nothing about the haphazard use of X-ray fitting machines in shoe stores (TIME, Sept. 19) except denounce it as dangerous. But in Washington last week the District of Columbia's Commission on Medical Licensure tried a neat trick: it banned use of the machines except by licensed operators-and no shoe-store clerk could qualify for a medical operator's license...
Arteries in the Mountain. Kay's The Instant was more ambitious: a picture of a mountain sliced down the center and partially draped with napkins. The cross section showed a mass of wires, entrails, arteries and porcelain eyes supported on a haphazard wooden scaffolding. "I can't tell you what it would mean to most people," Kay says, "but I do know what it means to me. It's a sort of showing what's inside-things half mechanical, half alive. The mountain itself can represent almost anything-a human being, life, the world, any fundamental...
Means of informing and advising prospective students on financial problems already exist, but only in haphazard fashion, the Provost feels. Under the new program, better information will be available and it will be more systematically provided throughout the nation. Details will be studied and worked...
...Scientists are convinced that a hydrogen reaction will not spread through the scarce hydrogen in the atmosphere or the plentiful hydrogen in the ocean. To explode at all, a hydrogen bomb must have just the right ingredients, and seawater is a haphazard collection of many elements. Even a few scientists, however, will feel slightly nervous if the first test bomb is exploded at Eniwetok, so near the Pacific Ocean's hydrogen...