Word: projects
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...result would have been different had the recordings been used to impeach verdicts or incriminate jurors, and properly so, as such use of them would have converted the project into another version of Mr. Justice Holmes's "dirty business." The purpose of the study, however, was no more than an inquiry into the different ways juries reach their verdicts, some of them proper and some of them, to the dismay of lawyers now and in the past, altogether improper. But just as they may be trusted on practical problems, the judges and lawyers may be trusted to tell the difference...
Private Radio. A two-way radio that costs only $119.50 per pair of units has been put on the market by Vocaline Corp. of America, Old Saybrook, Conn. Designed for both personal and business use, e.g., to talk back and forth on a big construction project, the Vocaline transceiver works over a distance of ten miles if the units are in line of sight, half a mile if there are obstacles between them. It operates over the citizens frequency band reserved by the Federal Communications Commission for short-range personal communications...
Powell, who finally found an apartment in Bedford Gardens near his research project, added that renters who were on the list tended to disguise their discrimination more carefully, and seemed to be "more polite and slicked...
...acoustics of the church must be sufficiently "sec" (dry) to let the organ sound clearly. Two years ago, a Swedish record fan sent Westminster a tape of an organ in Varfrukyrka (Our Lady's Church) in the small city of Skanninge, 180 miles south of Stockholm. The Westminster project was front-page news in Stockholm (13th CENTURY SWEDISH
...only damp punk, but he promptly shot out another to replace it. A plan for a grandiose $130 million "Palace of Progress" over Pennsylvania Station has been dropped, he said (the foundations alone, it developed, would cost another $45 million). But now he hopes to build an even bigger project on Manhattan's West Side. This time, the idea is to redevelop 40 acres between Pennsylvania Station and the Hudson River, create a $300 million-$500 million city of the future, with a vast merchandise mart, a permanent World's Fair, a heliport, a glittering television city...