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...introduced his latest design, a fully automatic machine that has three buttons: one for "short," extra-strong coffee, another for "long," slightly weaker coffee, and a third for a continuous flow of coffee to fill a pot. Valente hopes that the variety of the new machine will help to lengthen what he calls the "espresso belt." It now runs through Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and parts of Austria and Germany. The U.S., Valente admits, has so far shown relatively little taste for coffee Italian style. But he is sure the habit is exportable on a larger scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Espresso on the Run | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...answer is to get law students out of the classroom and into the court room. Another is to lengthen legal education. Law graduates can find a rich combination of the two at Georgetown University Law School in Washington, D.C. Located in a seedy downtown area far from its Jesuit-run parent campus, the 1,300-student law school (only 46% Catholic) is a few blocks from city and federal courts, and a ten-minute walk from the Supreme Court. The area is a virtually ideal crime laboratory, and the school has made the most of its opportunities. Georgetown now boasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law Schools: Courtroom Classrooms | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

Most U.S. oral surgeons have operated from outside the mouth, through the neck, usually cutting through the jaw bone to shorten or lengthen jaws. The procedure is likely to leave a scar and carries the risk of damaging a nerve, thus causing facial paralysis, and it does not permit the free repositioning of parts of the jaw. Only occasionally have U.S. surgeons operated entirely inside the mouth to move the jaw, something Dr. Obwegeser has made a standard practice. His techniques for moving and repositioning entire segments of bone, with teeth affixed, speedily correct severe defects U.S. surgeons have despaired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oral Surgery: A Radical New Technique | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

When the College re-opened in September 1913 the CRIMSON conducted a small debate over the value of business administration courses, which an alumnus had urged Harvard to offer. But in November this was replaced with pleas to President Lowell to lengthen the Christmas recess. And University officials announced that the Class of 1917 was the first Harvard class in which the number of students who prepared at public schools outnumbered those who prepared at private schools...

Author: By Paul J. Corkery, | Title: Class of 1916 Watched As Lowell Rapidly Changed the University | 6/14/1966 | See Source »

...shadows begin to lengthen on her lawn and the commercials for virile laundry detergents (Boost!, Blast!, Fist!, Kick!, Sneer!, Guts!) ricochet around the homemaker's uncleaned living room, sloth can easily be accounted for. As for wrath, that depends. Will she one day wax wroth when she suddenly realizes how many sunlit hours have been spent before the tube? Will she rise and turn off the set? Or is she trapped forever in the flickering world of vicarious fun and games, scandal and sex? Tune out tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Seven Deadly Daytime Sins | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

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