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...hook sometimes found in referendum laws. By petitioning for a referendum on a newly enacted law, a mere 5% of Michigan's voters can nullify that law until the next general election, which in this case will be in 1968. Only 274 more people than the required minimum-123,096 out of the nearly 2,500,000 who voted in the last statewide election-signed petitions, thereby suspending the anti-Daylight Saving law. Thus, for at least two summers, the fraction of Michiganders who petitioned for the referendum were set to have their...
...Trace of Water. The first aspirin was made by Germany's Bayer company, and its U.S. descendant (a division of Sterling Drug Inc.) today charges six to ten times as much as no-name brands. To justify the difference, Bayer contrasts U.S.P.*minimum standards with its own. Before tableting, says U.S.P., the basic chemical must be in tabular or needlelike crystals or crystalline powder; to produce a dependable dissolving rate, Bayer requires a special flake shape and needle shape (slender, tapered at both ends). U.S.P. permits .5% moisture and weight loss on drying; Bayer will tolerate none. U.S.P. allows...
...group tours. Only a few score such flights have taken off so far, but bookings are rising rapidly. Overseas National has been plugging its $160 round-trip fare from New York to London (for groups of 40 or more) with full-page ads sneering at the trunk-line group minimum of $230. "Our biggest competitors just announced the lowest jet fares in history," goes one ad's headline. "Since when is $230 less than...
...Seattle's Woodland Park. Says the zoo's architect, Fred Bassetti: "We wanted the kids to play tug of war with the monkeys, pet the rabbits, hug the lambs, be chased by the geese-in a word, to participate rather than just look." Hence a minimum of cages and fences...
...M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management for another postgraduate degree. At first, neither school knew about his double life. For two years Walter Winshall carried twelve courses a semester between the two schools, devoting many hours at the start of each term to calculating a schedule with a minimum of class conflicts at the two campuses, which are two miles apart...