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Penguin Puns. A self-taught, left-handed cartoonist, Pat Oliphant since 1955 had amused the 200,000 subscribers of the Advertiser, where he had moved up from copy boy. But he had long pined to pack up his pen and take it to the U.S. Both he and his trim, Dutch-born wife Hendrika (winner of the South Australian breaststroke championship in 1955) have boned up on American mores and politics against the day that one of Oliphant's endless job applications to U.S. papers paid...
...PARKER PEN has mechanized the pen-pal business. An IBM machine, stuffed with 65,000 names gathered the world over, matches ages and hobbies in minutes. Those interested can correspond with French spelunkers, Australian fur farmers or Arabian schoolboys...
...that sometimes I hear a sort of moan, as if many voices were asking the church for liberation from the burden. What can I do? Ecclesiastical celibacy is not a dogma. It is not imposed in the Scriptures. How simple it would be: we take up a pen, sign an act, and priests who so desire can marry tomorrow. But this is impossible. Celibacy is a sacrifice which the church has imposed upon herself - freely, generously and heroically...
Also growing in popularity are transistorized learning labs in which students plug in earphones and hear pre-programmed lessons. When it comes to the basics, the ballpoint pen has just about done away with the inkwell, desks and chairs are increasingly light, modern and movable-and made of plastic so tough that the kids can't whittle their initials into them...
...finance their trips by bringing back Western goods. Nylons from the U.S. will bring $5 or $6 in Warsaw. Professional Polish operators regularly swing far bigger deals. Gangs travel two or three times a week to the Baltic port of Gdynia, where they buy up to 100,000 ballpoint pen refills at a time from returning seamen and resell them at a profit of 300% to 400% . Similar trade flourishes in nylon blouses, sweaters, cigarettes, perfume, cosmetics, sunglasses and zippers. If the risks are high, so are the rewards: some smuggling sailors eventually retire with houses, cars and TV sets...