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...they controlled from below, or blocked the customer's side of the scale with canned goods, or laid meat on a long sheet of waxed paper, then pulled on the end of the paper to increase the weight reading. Others weighed one cut of meat but substituted an inferior or smaller piece before they wrapped the package...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Cheaters | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...handouts to meet the office payroll. Last week Chairman Butler struck back at his tormenters with a characteristic ultimatum. State organizations that do not pay up the joint $1,370,000 they owe in overdue quotas for 1957-59, he promised, will be paid off by inferior seating and housing arrangements at the Los Angeles convention next July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Perils of Paul | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Predictive tables for adult offenders also suggest that inferior intelligence, poor work habits, and small families are also likely to be characteristic of consistent trouble-makers in prison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School Criminologists Publish Tables to Predict Future Offenders | 9/30/1959 | See Source »

...that is breaking down the barrier between classics and jazz, will not hop up a piece of serious music. "It's a wedding that loses the best of both," he says. "It destroys the fire of jazz-which should be hot-blooded and swing hard-and it makes inferior classical music." Byrd keeps the forms divorced, plays one, then the other. "The arrangement," says Showboat Manager Peter Lambros, "has been extremely profitable for both of us." With room for only 80 customers, the small cellar club grosses $3.500 a week, and Byrd's popularity is so great that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Between Two Loves | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...real, and shafts of light through the mist startlingly beautiful. With the help of this brilliant graphic technique, a haunting guitar score, and the talented stock company of players who have turned up in all recent Bergman films. The Magician manages to fascinate as it confuses, demonstrates that even inferior Bergman is worth sampling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 7, 1959 | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

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