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...takes it all quite seriously, a dog can be afflicted with an "anxiety syndrome," a "jealousy syndrome," the "secretary syndrome," "dominance frustration," "barrier frustration," or even "psychosexual misorientation." And that's bad, because dogs burdened with those neuroses tend to destroy bedroom slippers, jump on guests, bite mailmen, wet on carpets, bark early in the morning and stop wagging their tails...
Though researchers have not been able to prove a direct cause-and-effect relationship between air pollution and disease, they have found that the incidence of chronic bronchitis among British mailmen who deliver mail in areas with heavy air pollution is three times as high as among mailmen who work in cleaner regions. Researchers also know that there are more deaths from chronic pulmonary disease in high-pollution areas of Buffalo than in other neighborhoods. Boston policemen working around high concentrations of carbon monoxide seem more susceptible to the common cold...
...Among other things, labor-management strife increases even as the little (pop. 2,800,000) Republic of Ireland grows more prosperous. In 1960 Ireland had virtually no strikes. Last year it had 89 major ones - trainmen quit running trains, gravediggers quit digging graves, and, no doubt with special enthusiasm, mailmen cut off all parcel-post traffic be tween the Ould Sod and England...
...along and swept up the scraps to prevent them from falling into the hands of industrial spies. Then, to catch and correct such bugs as cracking and stiffness, the firm gave away thousands of shoes to people who would give them a hard-wearing test, notably orphans in institutions, mailmen and its own salesmen and executives-including Copeland, who still wears Corfam shoes...
...gently hissing cans have not only revolutionized the packaging of many traditional products; they have also created entirely new ones. The Post Office, for example, has bought 120,000 bottles of animal repellent for mailmen to clip onto their belts. American males have used 79,995,404 aerosol cans of shaving lather, while their women prettied up with 253,052,659 cans of hair spray...