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Snooker & Stout. Spare time is Andy's chief possession, and he employs it outrageously. "Ah, well, I can't idle away a luv'ly morning like this," he muses, lying abed with the sun high. But the only way he knows to make money is to gamble. "Flo!" he shouts. "Fetch me football pools coupon up." He is no help around the house. "I thought I asked yer to notice when the pan boiled over," says Flo. "I did," says her spouse. "It was a quarter past eleven...
...Andy, just for daft-say I'm luv'ly...
...Pocket-sized communications devices will keep everyone in instant touch, and physical ailments will be diagnosed by computer and cured in many cases by replacing worn-out parts with factory-made ones. Money may be eliminated; customers will merely present their thumbs to an electronic scanner that will automatical ly deduct the purchase price from their distant bank accounts...
Back in 1855, Boston became the first major U.S. city to outlaw school segregation. Today, about 30 of its 190 schools are de facto segregated-85% or more Negro. Although Negroes complain loudly of inequities, the school committee is uninterested-and it hard ly has to care. In last week's primary, despite intense Negro campaigning, Boston's heavily Irish Catholic voters gave the incumbent committeemen such a whopping plurality that the same old policy seems inevitable...
...working harder and harder, when in fact machines may simply have replaced so many people that the work ers left seem more efficient. At any rate, the economy is enjoying a remarkably prolonged rise in productivity. Business men do not like to boast about it open ly, lest unions ask for higher wages or shorter hours, but industrial productivity has been rising some 3.5% annually dur ing the current, 29-month-old upswing in business - far above the nation's long-term average gain of 2.2% a year...