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...rules allow a student to indicate "Boston-movie" or "square-coffee" when she cannot be more specific. As a result, only a few people--those who sign out to a boy's room or an organization--could be found in case of an emergency. In any case, it is quicker and easier to contact her through a roommate or a friend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Abolish Estimated Signouts | 11/18/1965 | See Source »

Follow the Leader. Quicker, cheaper, lighter, more versatile copiers-that is what all the manufacturers are rushing out. At last week's annual Business Equipment Exposition in Manhattan's massive Coliseum, Dennison Manufacturing Co. showed off a new coin-operated copier for use in banks, libraries or other places where people will pay for reproductions (probable price per letter-size copy: 100). Long Island's Viewlex displayed a 20-lb. copier that retails for $249.50. Such competitors as A. B. Dick, Copease, Bell & Ho well's Ditto subsidiary and Addressograph's Bruning Division introduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Industry: What's New, Copycat? | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

What bounces higher than a bad check, picks up English faster than a Berlitz student, and drags kids away from the dinner table quicker than Soupy Sales? Super Ball, America's newest plaything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fads: It's a Bird, It's a Plane... | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

Hive After Hive. From those 20 imported African queens have come as many as 450,000 new bees a year almost none of which inherited the traits of the Italians and Germans that fathered them. Quick to anger, even quicker to swarm, the new Africans lave turned on Italian and German bees tor no apparent reason, killing off hive after hive. Moreover, the new males passed their bad blood on to new females, who went on propagating the angry strain. "We thought that when they got acclimated they would become civilized," says Father João Oscar Nedlel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entomology: Danger from the African Queens | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

...simpler and quicker solution is a floppy hat and one of the new burnoose-like robes. If this makes a girl look like a Bedouin housewife, does she care? No. Like the Bedouin girl, she is less interested in how she looks at the moment she has it on than how she will look later, when she takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beauty: The Big Fade | 7/16/1965 | See Source »

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