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...force to control "a rush hour every hour all day." The University of Georgia has more autos than eight out of ten towns in Georgia. The University of Houston has 14,000 student cars competing for 5,500 parking places. At the University of Washington, armed campus cops in prowl cars can chase speeders clear to Idaho if necessary. Illinois has put a criminology professor in charge of the whole mess. The car has begun to shape campus life all over the country. The timing of cultural events depends on available parking. Fraternity house lawns look like drive-in restaurants...
...third tallest moun tain in the world and probably the world's most majestic when its snowy peaks are lit by the sunrise and borne aloft on lacy clouds. Sikkim contains every variety of climate and plant, from the subtropical through the temperate to the arctic. Snow leopards prowl the Himalayan slopes, pandas frolic in the forested gorges, clouds of butterflies hover over 3,000 different kinds of rhododendron and 400 types of orchid...
...wants a feel for the economy that he cannot get in his marble palace in Washington. He relies heavily on his web of contacts in banking, Government and stock market circles, but also makes a point of chatting frequently with salesmen, shoeshine boys, hashslingers and foreign tourists, likes to prowl the lobby of Manhattan's Waldorf in search of likely candidates for questioning...
Nabisco's 3,500 salesmen prowl groceries two or three times each week, checking coded numbers on packages to see how they are selling, and moving older shipments to the front so that shoppers will take them first. If a product spends too much time on the shelf, Nabisco buys it back from the store and grinds it into pig feed. Among the recent failures that went to the hogs were Sesame Thins and Celery Thins. When one shareholder asked at the annual meeting why Sesame Thins had been dropped, Vice President Nile Cave answered: "This happens...
Last month Betancourt finally set up a joint police command, responsible directly to him and with complete authority over all Caracas police. Some forces are being equipped with fast new prowl cars and station wagons; and for the first time, vehicles will be dispatched through a central radio command...