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Winding up its business, the association elevated a 14-hour-a-day small-town lawyer, John C. Satterfield, 57, of Yazoo City. Miss. (pop. 12,500), to its presidency. A third-generation attorney and state legislator at 23, Satterfield is the first Mississippian ever to head the A.B.A. Said he last week: "My most important mission will be to propagate world peace through law. This transcends any of our domestic problems...
...York City's Police Commissioner Stephen Kennedy ordered a cot set up in his office in anticipation of a heavy week, canceled all holidays for his cops, placed his 24,000-man force on a 60-hour work week, alerted inspectors for 24-hour-a-day duty, assigned 8,000 men just to guard the visitors. Picketing would be permitted, he said, though not with placards held with sticks that might be wielded as weapons. All "movable objects" that might be used for ammunition (e.g., trash receptacles) were removed from streets on which the visitors might ride...
...keep up to date and to remain competitive, vending-machine makers are now spending ten times what they used to on developing new gadgets. They are now experimenting with store-front units with a complete line of grocery staples, which could operate on a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week basis. They are also perfecting new dispensing devices for supermarkets and drugstores to prevent costly pilferage of small items of merchandise...
...uncertainties about the growth of Soviet missile power, it has underscored one certainty about present-day U.S. deterrent power: the U.S. deterrent is only as good as its reaction time. Today, the free world's one great deterrent is the Strategic Air Command's 24-hour-a-day, year-round ground alert system, a wonder of organizational achievement that keeps a rotating one-third of SAC bomber forces so sensitized that they can get off within 15 minutes' notice from any one of at least 65 SAC bases on the globe. Last week TIME Correspondent Ed Rees...
With housewives in the morning and noon hours, teen-agers in the afternoons, and leagues ranging from religious groups to industrial teams, bowling has become a 24-hour-a-day sport in many parts of the country. (Texas Instruments' workers start bowling at Dallas Cotton Bowling Palace at 4 a.m. after the night shift ends.) New England, the heart of smaller-sized duck-and candlepins. is giving way to the tenpin boom. Between them A.M.F. and Brunswick claim this year they will add some 25,000 new automatic pin-setting machines in bowling alleys across the nation...