Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gadgets. One historic day six years ago, he repaired to his garage with an armload of automobile power-window assemblies and second-hand refrigerator motors worth about $2,000 at the junkyard. Three years and a psychic, $750,000 later (his labor, which he figures at $20 an hour), Skora had remade the mountain of junk in his own image and likeness, more or less. And he looked upon it and saw it was good. And he called it Arok. Following the custom among home robot builders, Arok is Skora spelled backward (without...
...discussion took place in Salt Lake City in Kimball's dark paneled office overlooking a courtyard garden. For an hour and a half, the Mormon leader addressed questions about the scriptures of his church, the social changes it faces, and the issues stirred by the June revelation. Unaccustomed to talking to the press, Kimball seemed ill at ease and spoke tersely. Still, he clearly conveyed a sense of his inner reflections. Says Ostling: "I don't think the revelation was an easy thing for him to act on. He realized it would be a turning point...
...last week's Cabinet session, the Premier, who has twice been hospitalized for a heart condition, conceded that "a month ago, I was very ill and could hardly function." He was as feisty as ever, though, at a stormy, seven-hour Knesset debate on foreign policy. The Premier's Likud-dominated coalition handily turned back a no-confidence motion introduced by the Labor Party by a vote of 70 to 35. But Israel's internal debate over its response to the Egyptian peace initiative continued. Last week TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Dean Fischer and Correspondent David Halevy interviewed Foreign Minister...
...nearly 80% of the nation's wooden mousetrap bases: "Our absenteeism has dropped 30%, and our tardiness is almost zero." Parsons' incentive: an extra day's pay at the end of every month to workers who are punctual. Reichhold Chemicals' fiberglass manufacturing division in Irwindale, Calif, offers half an hour's extra pay for each week a worker completes a full shift without illness or absence. The bonuses are called "sweet pay" (for Stay at Work, Earn Extra...
Harvard Hillel. Jewish Coffee-House and Amateur Hour. Hillel House, 8:30 p.m. $1:00 admission...