Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of state legislatures are discussing proposals to ban nonreturnable bottles. In addition, there is talk among Federal officials about a possible "effluent" tax on a variety of consumer containers. In effect, this might resemble the deposit system. The consumer would pay a small tax per can, then get his money back when he returned the can for reuse. It is an ingenious idea, but it will need far more political support before it can come to pass...
...discarded aluminum cans that now cheapen U.S. parks, beaches and roadsides. In Miami, Reynolds is collecting 1,500 lbs. of cans a month through Goodwill Industries. In Los Angeles, it is getting ten times that from Boy Scouts, and other profit-minded collectors, who are paid half-a-cent per can. By melting down those cans, Reynolds "mines" reusable aluminum...
...short run, the best bet for alleviating the litter problem may well be the old deposit system. In recent years, U.S. container makers have turned to no-deposit bottles and cans because they save handling and storage costs. Moreover, Americans have grown too affluent to claim the tiny deposit per bottle...
...Conductor Erich Leinsdorf puts it - is easily available to increasingly sophisticated listeners. What the composer writes is indelibly affected by that fact. Italy's Luciano Berio notes that Debussy was influenced by Javanese music, but had to discover it by pure chance. If it had not been per formed at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1889, he would -never have known of its existence. "Today," adds Berio, "re cordings provide a constant Universal Exhibition...
...when. By pushing buttons on a console, the clerk queries a regional computer's "memory bank" and gets an instant reading on what seats are available. Customers then can have their tickets printed electronically on the spot. The T.R.S. Ticketron system charges a flat rate of 25? per ticket for local events. Manhattan ticket brokers normally charge more-$1.50 per seat...