Word: helper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Motorized CheckOut. T he more spectacular new dolls, however, are those that perform grown-up tasks. Bizzie Lizzie pushes a carpet sweeper, dusts and irons. Busy Becky the Handi Helper, programmed in much the same way, comes with twelve housekeeping accessories. Shoppin' Sheryl pushes a shopping cart, reaches out with a magnetized "Magic Hand" to pluck items off shelves, then pays at what is labeled a Motorized CheckOut Counter after the sale is rung up on a Ringing Cash Register. Surely an Overdrawn Bank Account is in the works somewhere...
Unitarian Solution. The last story, Eli, the Fanatic, borders on mysticism. Its chief characters are a lawyer in a Brooks Brothers suit (Michael Tolan), his very pregnant wife (Rose Arrick), a Talmudic scholar (Lou Jacob!) and the scholar's helper (David Ackroyd). The assistant is a bearded D.P. who survived a concentration camp with only the ghetto garb of a black suit, small prayer shawl and broad-brimmed...
Scientists suspected that DNA had a helper, a single-stranded chemical first cousin called ribonucleic acid (RNA). Most of the cell's RNA is found in ribosomes. These are globular bodies in the material outside the cell's nucleus that seem to be highly active centers of protein synthesis. But if this ribosomal RNA played a role in protein making, how did it obtain and execute the instructions from the master molecule DNA inside the nucleus...
...position on this matter, but many members of SDS feel that the Panthers have very serious political flaws that has greatly hindered the fight against racism. And Landau does not point out that these criticism are not those of bystanders, but of active participants in the struggle (e.g. Painters Helper campaign; support for Welfare Mothers struggling against the Flat Grant and price hikes in ghetto supermarkets when welfare checks come out; support for the Polaroid workers; fighting racist unemployment; support for Charlie McNeil, Kurt Bridgman and others in struggles against racist apprenticeship programs...
...arthritis, and they needed someone to help keep house. The Milhouses turned to the California Rural League Assistance project, recently under attack by Governor Reagan for inadequate service to the poor. Within days of CRLA intervention, the state agreed to supply Phil and Anna Milhous with money for a helper, though no funds were made available for transportation to a doctor. White House Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler noted that the Cousins Milhous, "a very self-reliant family," had been quoted as seeking no aid from Nixon. The President, he said, was "proceeding on that basis." In an interview with...