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...Feeding a baby, once one of the major agonies of having one, has been made all but automatic by the Pet Milk Co., which has produced a pre-sterilized can of formula equipped with a sterilized nipple wrapped in plastic. At feeding time nothing more is needed than to peel off the nipple, open the can, tear off the plastic, replace the nipple, and begin feeding the baby one of a choice of four formulas at room temperature. Afterward, the whole unit is thrown away. Price: six 4-oz. or four 8-oz. cans for $1.29. Trial distribution began last...
Oversimplified. In dispensing justice in such cases, the law generally relies on a time-tested decision. In England in 1843, a Scotsman named Daniel M'Naghten, fancying some grievance against England's Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, shot and killed the Prime Minister's secretary by mistake. Fifteen British magistrates agreed that M'Naghten did not understand the "nature and quality" of his act-in short, could not tell right from wrong while committing the crime-and was therefore insane. Instead of going to the gallows, the daft Scot went to an asylum...
...track), or if she wore gloves-and not at all, in most countries, if she was unmarried. Nowadays, even in strait-laced Spain, girls who are barely old enough to hold up a strapless bra have their hands out. When it is enclosed in a glove, uninhibited males blithely peel it off or smooch the wrist instead. And now that the hand kiss has become democratic, it is bestowed alfresco, any time, any place, even when the recipient is on horseback or in church...
...year-olds on the air with her every day, replacing three each week. They learn the alphabet, balance baskets on their heads, shove sand around with toy bulldozers, flack for their own drawings, and learn key facts of nature, such as, say, a whale can get a sunburn and peel. It is a school, not vaudeville, to be sure, but it is a pretty good show nonetheless. Teachers crawl under tables to convince reticent little boys that their big chance is hidden in that friendly machine with the red eyes. Once in Los Angeles, the teacher asked if anyone could...
Danger to Democracy? Like many other legacies of 19th century Britain, the law enforcement system seems almost to have been designed not to work. To some extent, it was. Sir Robert Peel, who in 1829 organized the first modern force (and gave the bobbies his name), admitted to grave misgivings that it might be used as an instrument of tyranny. Unlike a soldier or civil servant, the British policeman is not a "servant of the Crown" but has the ambiguous legal status of a uniformed civilian who is merely paid to do what every citizen should...