Word: lick
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...about a July commentary-"The Marriage -Having -Gone -Round." That's when our cakes have been eaten and our champagne is beer. But still we will always have TIME'S frosting. And I don't know whether to lick...
After years of denouncing discount houses as the slums of retailing, traditional retailers have begun to see the force of the old dictum: if you can't lick 'em, join 'em. In recent weeks Allied Stores Corp., F. W. Woolworth Co. and S. S. Kresge Co. have all announced plans to set up their own discount operations. Last week the nation's largest discount house countered with the news that it was about to move into the inner sanctum of retailing society. As the newest addition to its chain of 14 stores in four states...
...Department Manpower Expert Seymour Wolfbein, feels that structural, or continued, unemployment is a growing threat-but that little can be done about it until the economy advances far enough to get the cyclically unemployed back to work. "You will still have structural unemployment," says Wolfbein, "but to try to lick the structural problem is a lot easier from a high level of business activity than from...
...Californians are proud of their university network, and well they might be. It is huge, young, brilliant, aggressive, progressive. It colonizes everything from the atom to outer space. At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Cal's physicists run one of the world's famed atom smashers. At the Lick Observatory at Mount Hamilton, Cal astronomers scan the galaxies. Thanks to Cal's engineers, California's farms are the most mechanized in the U.S. The university runs the atom-bomb city of Los Alamos, N. Mex. It owns ranches, apartment buildings, forests, hospitals, vineyards, movie studios and seven...
...feet into Hong Kong bay. Miami has a new $350,000 radar approach system. Near San Francisco, the Federal Aviation Agency is building an ultramodern, $5,000,000 radar air-traffic control center, whose Remington Rand electronic brain will track all aircraft in a three-state zone. Hardest-to-lick problem thus far is jet noise, but airport officials hope that the new turbofan jet engines will eventually alleviate even that drawback of the jets. Dulles Airport is planting 80,000 trees around its rim to help absorb jet noise...