Word: misses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Founded in 1971 by Miss Shea and Mary Emmons, 29, the Clearinghouse is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization that limits its services to other nonprofit organizations and institutions. Its membership, now at 300, includes colleges, hospitals, private schools, settlement houses and environmental groups...
...idea of establishing the Clearinghouse came when Miss Shea, who was working on an independent adult-education project, and Mrs. Emmons, who was scheduling courses for Head Start teachers, found that they were both looking for the same kind of funding. "We reviewed a lot of information sources," Mrs. Emmons recalls. "Ninety-nine percent of what we discovered was not appropriate to our problems, but would benefit someone else...
Shrimp Noises. Even in a craft as large as Skylab, the Navy consultants say, astronauts feel the same "stimulus impoverishment" as submariners. Consciously and unconsciously, they miss such familiar sights as trees, animals and sunrises. "There is nothing that lives or grows," says Submarine Medical Officer William Tansey. "It is all flashing lights, air conditioning and bells. You lose your grasp on the real world." One result aboard submarines on long missions is that sailors vie for space in the sonar room to hear the mating calls of whales or swimming noises of shrimp...
...about $30 per month per outlet, a percentage of sales far below the average for all retailing. Wade Litchenberg, 18, a night manager in Fort Lauderdale, describes his job as "a real challenge. I love it-meeting people, learning all about the business." Says Lynnette Myers, 18, of Jackson, Miss.: "It's a happy place to work. It's my home away from home...
...shows traces of a dozen other singers: Streisand's nose and extraordinary head tones, Garland's saturation emotions and devoted homosexual following, Fanny Brice's waifish vulnerability, Joplin's floozy eleganza in attire and her tendency to egg audiences on to hysteria. But Miss M's secret is that she is not really like those others: she is acting like them. "I just try to have a good time and let the audience in on the secret," she says. "It's like giving a party and I am the Grande Hostesse. I always wanted...