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...Lid. In a household or a business, the essence of good budget-making is to reduce all assorted debts and dreams to the common denominator of dollars so that the budgetmakers can see how to get the most out of the money on hand or in prospect. Modern government is a collection of fragmented divisions and departments, each sure of its own manifest destiny and naturally inclined to expand without worrying whether total income balances total outgo. It is Rowland Hughes's job to provide the kind of lid for uninhibited government that limited funds impose on a housewife...
...nights and three days stood vigil by the rough-hewn wooden coffin in which Mavis lay. Last week, with a hearse and 200 friends of the bereaved gathered outside the Sithebe hut, Mavis' father stood ready, hammer in hand, to nail the coffin's lid, while Mavis' grandmother knelt down with a basin of water and washed the girl's wan face. Slowly, the body stirred and turned over, face down. Father and grandmother dropped hammer and basin and rushed from the hut. Followed by the 200 mourners, they ran into the bush crying mercy from...
...status. "Election has its good sides," Sultan Seydou told a friend, "because you always know that you have to do the right thing because otherwise you'll be fired by the voters. Acting as absolute ruler is like sitting in a dark, iron kettle with the lid...
...iron, came in vogue. Soon there were models in zinc, glass terra cotta, papier-mâché, hydraulic cement and vulcanized rubber. The coffin torpedo, marketed in 1878, was the final answer to body snatchers-it featured a bomb that was triggered to go off when the coffin lid was lifted. However, the triumph of sepulchral gadgeteering was the "life signal," which offered mechanical surcease for the widespread terror of being accidentally buried alive. In such devices the victim was provided with a bell rope a speaking tube, an air vent or even a ladder...
Though the new Continental has been redesigned from rubber to roof, it is deliberately reminiscent of its famed predecessor. The body is long (18 ft. 2 in.) and low (56 in.). The spare-tire mount, a hallmark of the old Continental, is now molded into the trunk lid. Under its 6-ft. hood is a souped-up Lincoln engine with an estimated 300 h.p. (because Ford wants to avoid a horsepower contest with other big cars, the exact figures are secret). Automatic transmission, power steering, power brakes and power windows are standard equipment; the sole optional feature is air conditioning...