Word: painlessness
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Ever aware of the necessity to make taxpaying as painless as possible,* the I.R.S. also announced a new timesaving device. Taxpayers need no longer make out their checks to "District Director of Internal Revenue." Suggests the bureau: just write "Internal Revenue Service," and save untold molecules...
...rate, the end is relatively painless this way. The Class of 1960 will never know what it's missing, while Mr. von Stade and the rest of us will always have our memories...
...Hostess-with-the-Mostes' Perle Mesta turned up as a guest traveloguist at the Woman's National Democratic Club, startled the ladies with a tale of a "birth house" she saw in Russia in 1953. Perle's theory: the Soviets brainwash expectant mothers to achieve painless childbirth. In the maternity center she had observed 20 women, "none in pain. They took one or two deep breaths and the child was born." Added Perle: "They used the same brainwash for the mothers that they used for the war prisoners and soldiers [see SCIENCE...
...singled out for especial attack the Administration's method of handling foreign affairs, an approach he termed "sloganeering." He attacked this approach as characterized by statements such as "the painless liberation of the satellites;'...'the art of going to the brink;' and the 'Reds...
...matter how painless stamp plans may appear, it is still the customer who eventually pays. Though most retailers publicly deny that they raise prices to cover the extra cost, the price of the stamps ultimately finds its way into the store's markup. In a study of western retailers, the University of New Mexico Bureau of Business Research discovered that most raised prices about 4% to make sure that all extra expenses would be taken care of. Thus, if a shopper filled four books of stamps by buying $480 worth of groceries and won a $13 chafing dish...