Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Preemie Protection. Mothers of very sick children may sleep in, at $6.50 a night (including breakfast and lunch). For the most helpless of all immature humans, the premature baby, there is a special wing consisting of six rooms, each containing four incubators. As each room is emptied, it is completely sterilized, thus greatly reducing the risk of infection for the next occupants. (With a single, large preemie ward, which can never be emptied, this practice is impossible.) And preemies enjoy an electronic monitoring system which, the Hopkins believes, is the first of its kind in the world. Under each armpit...
...market for books disproving hollowness on the ground that Everything Is Stuffed with Meaning. Meanwhile, in the hollow or waning-moon part of the cycle, we have had The Waste Makers, The Pyramid Climbers, The Brain Pickers, The Naked Society, and that inevitable-but-yet-unwritten examination of the lunch habits of advertising men, Breath in the Afternoon. Now, with no moon in sight, the co-author of The Split-Level Trap has written The Weekenders...
...many graduate students who now study in Radcliffe Library from using the new Study Center. At the same time, she predicts that the number of study dates will increase. Mrs. Bunting expects that the Center's proximity to the dorms will also bring many more girls back home for lunch. Lunches will become more like Harvard's, she hopes, with time for relaxed conversation...
...popular gag of the wondrous jet age is "Breakfast in Berlin, lunch in London, dinner in Detroit-and baggage in Bombay...
Hidden Records. In the quickie heyday, thousands of outsiders flocked to Alabama to get divorced between lunch and cocktails. Alabama acquired-for at least an hour-such famous citizens as baseball's Hank Greenberg, Mrs. Aristotle ("Tina") Onassis and TV's John Daly (so he could marry the daughter of Chief Justice Earl Warren). Some quickie lawyers raked in as much as $200,000 a year. In 1961 the Alabama Bar Association threatened to disbar lawyers knowingly involved in phony quickies. That cut the Alabama divorce rate by almost one-third, but quickie business persisted, notably...