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...Tucson House shopper simply summons Gorman by telephone, then switches her set to Channel 2. Is the lettuce crisp? The corn ripe? She can inspect each item as closely as could be without actual melon tunking or peach squeezing. Gorman rings up the order under her watchful eye, then hangs up the phone. The groceries are delivered within minutes. The lady need never get dressed. Gorman cannot inspect...
Though it is the first such setup in the U.S., electronic marketing is not all that the housewives' network has to offer. Channel 6 provides 24-hour Big Sisterly surveillance of the lobby which allows a tenant to inspect her own callers before admitting them or to eavesdrop on a neighbor's callers. Switching to Channel 5, a mother can check on the kids in the swimming pool. A fourth camera continuously displays cards printed with news items, classified ads and unclassified gossip...
...doubted, however, that the death penalty imposed on Ruby would contribute to the likelihood of a reversal, as some observers have suggested. Nevertheless, both he and Sutherland suggested that in a capital case the court does "inspect the evidence more closely...
Vernon, who just returned from a trip to inspect the programs in Latin America, says that the progress of the two Argentine projects since their inception last summer has been particularly encouraging...
...president (1933-53) answered his critics for the first time. At a meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Conant declared that colleges should refuse even to receive N.C.A.T.E. accrediting teams. Reason: the teams are largely composed of "special interest" education professors who often only cursorily inspect a campus, seeing what they want to see. Conant strongly urged a new, state-supervised system that would leave it to colleges to decide whether a teacher knows his subject, and let master school teachers judge whether he can teach it well...