Word: mained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under new law enacted last night by the City Council all rented apartments in Cambridge will be required to have an electric communications system connecting the main door to individual apartments. The law, passed by a 7-1 vote, was introduced by Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci in the wake of the murder of Mrs. Ada C. Bean of 41 Linnean Street of February...
...free museum which opens its doors once a year to maintain this status (but never announces that one date), it is primarily a club. Its members pay dues, which are munched away at the extravagant banquets served around a long table in the high-arched chandelier-strung main hall...
Fielding practically ignores sightseeing: he dismisses the Louvre in five lines, the Prado in six, and his main reaction to Roman ruins is that "there's a permanency about...
...Guide's main attractions is the dining recommendations. Fielding fails to mention many good European restaurants -usually for a reason. Perhaps the waiters do not speak English, or the maitre is invariably rude to Americans. Sometimes Fielding leaves one out simply because it is too good and already has all the business it can handle. Why spoil it for himself with a flood of U.S. tourists? Occasionally, Fielding just trips up. To fill gaps in the 1969 Guide, TIME asked its correspondents in London, Paris, Rome and Madrid to describe some notable Fielding omissions. Their recommendations...
...follows, unfortunately, should not be imposed on any reasonably alert reader. Though the author, a young Harvard Medical School student, deserves good marks for his science, fiction is his failing. The level of the prose is droningly simplistic-a prose style only partly justified by the fact that the main characters are laconic scientists. The characterization of the scientists and the lush seem to have been retrieved from the memory bank of some tired computer. And the magic of the gadgetry gradually cloys and clutters in the mind...