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...Latest of the persuaders, a rig of FM speakers to spur impulse buying at point of sale. The Sellaprompter, installed by Robolease Corp., bleats a 5¼-sec. sales "prompt" for individual products over speakers 33 times hourly. Big Brother shows its mercy by interrupting prompts for music, is paid for by product manufacturers (e.g., Borden, Heinz, Pillsbury, General Foods). Cost per message...
...A.M.A. was a leader in urging the compulsory registration of births and deaths, and saw this battle won everywhere by 1933. As early as 1874. the A.M.A. began to promote laws to prevent the spread of syphilis, and it was a prompt advocate of premarital examinations, which became general by 1937. Sample resolution in 1910: "The American Medical Association, through its House of Delegates, hereby presents for the instruction and protection of the lay public the unqualified declaration that illicit sexual intercourse is not only unnecessary to health, but that its direct consequences in terms of infectious disease constitute...
This month Zorach will receive the gold medal for sculpture from the National Institute of Arts and Letters-an award that should prompt a fresh look at a man whose perennial appeal is that he has dared to seem passe. While other sculptors have taken to the welding torch or to bolting together abstract constructions out of objects found in city dumps, Zorach's work remains warm and whole some. He has at times teetered precariously close to sentimentality but has never given way to corn...
Thomas E. Petri '62, secretary of the Council, J. Eugene Marans '63, and Corneilus J. Minihan '63 said that they hoped their resignation would prompt the Council to conduct a college-wide referendum about re-organization "as soon as possible...
...rate, by the middle of the last century both these shortcomings were quite painfully obvious--sufficiently so to prompt the Church of England to undertake (in 1870) a general revision of the scriptures. In company with the Church of Scotland and various dissenting sects (John Henry Newman was obliged to decline an offer to participate), the Church of England eventually produced the Revised Version of 1881. If the RV, as it was inevitably and almost immediately called, failed to arouse any considerable enthusiasm, this was in part the fault of the Church itself, which had given the Revisers a very...