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Husbands had just better get to like it or lump it, according to Anthropologist Margaret Mead. "We're dragging behind the rest of the world in the use of our womanpower," she grumbled from behind her stacks of papers in a corner of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. "There is great need for the woman in her 40s, who is educated, to come back into a professional career after her children are reared. We need women for all skilled fields. Women's professional second wind is much more important than the right to vote women...
...bodies. To the shock of shoddy contractors, the city's able new school building boss, Eugene E. Hult, recently ordered a half-built $2,500,000 Queens school to be partly dismantled because of weak concrete. Hult also publicized the quaint fact that school custodians, who get lump-sum maintenance funds and are allowed to socket unspent money, have been geting rich in the process. Bushwick High's D. Paul Bishop reportedly got $53,000 ast year, topping Gross's salary by $13,000 and the mayor's by $3,000. The word is that...
...space-conscious laymen, the very word meteoroid is heavy with menace. It conjures up visions of rocklike objects streaking the sky as shooting stars, moving at such enormous speeds that a lump as big as a pea could punch a fist-sized hole through any spacecraft. Scientists, who have calculated the probability that a spacecraft and a meteoroid would collide, are less worried than laymen, but even so, they have planned on protecting long-range space vehicles with meteor bumpers. Now it seems that spacecraft will need no such shields. Space is indeed teeming with meteoroids, but most of them...
...Rave & a Lump...
...least bit of attention to this "monster" who wrote such a sarcastic and completely untrue review of it [Oct. 11]. He is sure to receive just one small lump of coal in his stocking this year...