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...shoeshine kit for $5.95, disguised as a statusful French phone, with a hand bank built in to hold the money the man saves for his family with his elbow grease. And to help the will-less fellow cut down his smoking, there is a cigarette case with a time lock that will open only at preset intervals...
...June 19, the members of the Sacred College of Cardinals, each to be accompanied by one aide, will assemble in the Sistine Chapel. Vatican officials will ritually inspect the chapel and adjoining apartments for unauthorized persons, and then lock the prelates in. They will not reappear until two-thirds of the cardinals have selected someone to be the next Bishop of Rome, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church and Vicar of Jesus Christ on earth...
...adequate for the teaching staff, but hardly convenient for undergraduates. In consequence, some Soc Rel people forsee friction between the two departments when they move into the Behavioral Sciences Center. Already Memorial Hall has indicated its desire to keep undergraduates out of the Center's common rooms and to lock up all its facilities in the evening. Soc Rel, predictably, wants to give undergraduates free run of the building, day or night. This problem is a simple physical one: space must be allocated in such a way that Psychology can lock itself up at 5 p.m. without shutting off access...
...concurrently is never as potent as the single-shot selective buying staged by Northern Negroes for job equality. Last year 300 Detroit ministers asked their congregations to bypass Tip Top bread and Borden's milk, and alerted nonchurchgoers among Detroit's 400,000 Negroes with catchy leaflets ("Lock the Gate. Elsie Won't Cooperate"). Negroes were soon hired or upgraded not only by those companies but by 40 more who got the message. Philadelphia ministers have singled out, among others, A. & P., Sun Oil, Tasty Baking Co. and Breyer's ice cream; they claim that their...
...flexibility. Farmers there like to shift from crop to crop-mainly wheat, corn and soybeans-as prices and supply conditions change. But under Freeman's plan, a farmer's past wheat production would determine his marketing quota; farmers were apprehensive that establishing this wheat "history" would lock them into wheat production at the cost of flexibility...