Word: line
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week's barrage was in part designed to slow down that arming, the Egyptians were too late. The Israelis are securely dug in along the canal, in what they call the "Barlev Line," named for Chief of Staff Haim Barlev. It consists of multistory bunkers equipped with electric lights and even television and roofed with a "secret" material (possibly a combination of timber, sand and steel rails ripped up from the trans-Sinai railway line), which the Israelis claim can withstand a direct hit from a 130-mm. shell-one reason why their casualties were so light...
...astrology boom is made up of many elements?including merchandising, show business and crass exploitation of people's credulity. Department stores across the U.S. are mounting astrological promotions. Woolworth's is pushing a full line of zodiacal highball and cocktail glasses and paper napkins. Bulls, goats, crabs and scorpions are beginning to embellish everything from children's clothes to writing paper; St. Crispin in Manhattan is offering its Park Avenue clientele "astronotes" for invitations. One Manhattan beauty parlor boasts a resident astrologer and twelve special hairdos, one for each sign of the zodiac. A perfume manufacturer is doing well with...
...Line. Though they do not lug revolvers and they frequently debate quitting the force, the Mod Squadders are in fact good TV cops. When they catch a criminal, usually after a long chase, they beat him up as thoroughly as do the toughest TV heroes. Nor is the series always soft on hippies. In one episode, the Modders go to the aid of an underground paper only to discover that the scheming hippie editor had bombed and wrecked the paper himself to attract publicity and expose "police indifference." Still, the actors try for a modicum of realism. When one script...
...workers behead the huge "Fascist" puppet and plan a democratic Italy. But the new tyranny becomes the assembly line, about which Fo raises a characteristically Italian plaint: "Women who work on the assembly line are forced to make 40,000 body movements a day. As a result, 15% of them become sterile and 30% cripples. In some factories where men are subjected to continual movement and noise, 40% of the men become impotent...
CONGLOMERATE MERGERS. Both the White House and the Democratic-controlled Congress are both investigating them. That displeases some, but by no means all, businessmen. Among the most outspoken foes of conglomerates are old-line business leaders who are fearful of being taken into crazy-quilt mergers. Last week Nixon's chief trustbuster, Richard McLaren, said that his department may bring suit to break up some conglomerate mergers that have already taken place. McLaren thus goes beyond his Democratic predecessors, who showed no inclination to test their legal power to fight conglomerates. If McLaren sues, he will invoke Section...