Word: item
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lights, however, should be the most popular item to get Sonuswitching, the company figures. Travelers will be able to phone and turn the lights on at night to fool prowlers, then turn them off later on. And then, of course, there is always the predatory bachelor anxious for scientific help. With Sonuswitch, he never has to leave the couch. When he wants to turn off the light, all he has to do is clap his hands. There is still a handy riposte available for a quick-witted prey, however. She can slap him hard, twice...
...that by bringing the car "into the classic line of everyman's car, Rolls no longer strikes the eye and thus loses a great part of its singularity and originality." Paris' Le Monde regretted that "Rolls is losing little by little its character of collector's item by making sacrifices to progress...
...banjos as part of the folk-rock trend, lifted the men's cosmetics industry to a $35 million business in recent years, is buying more jewelry than ever. He looks less at the price tag nowadays than at quality, fashion, style, color. The biggest new main-line item is the color-TV set. Stores are selling all they can get-and in some cases letting go sets that they were saving for Christmas. RCA's David Sarnoff last week predicted that sales this year will hit 2,500,000. The TV-set and TV-tube makers cannot turn...
Concession to Atheism. The first item for debate on the fourth session's agenda, the declaration had been sharply attacked by prelates from Spain, Italy and the Roman Curia, who charged that it was a concession to atheism and a denial of the Catholic Church's claim to speak God's truth exclusively. Shortly before the vote, more than 100 conservative bishops petitioned the Pope to take the declaration away from the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity and give it to a new commission of theologians for rewriting. A majority of the council presidents, moderators and members...
...Deal? The bill, eliminating the national origins quota system that went into effect in 1929 (TIME, Aug. 13), had cleared the House, 318 to 95, and was awaiting routine consideration by the Senate Judiciary Committee. There was just one item to be disposed of first: Dirksen's proposed constitutional amendment on state legislative reapportionment. The issue has become a passion with Ev, who has been trying for nearly a year now to modify the Supreme Court's ruling that both houses of state legislatures must be apportioned solely on the basis of population. In an earlier version, Dirksen...