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...appliance. Each time the Masher is filled, which in most households would be daily, a spray device automatically squirts a deodorizing and disinfecting liquid on the trash. Then the key is turned on and the start button pushed. Brute force does the job. The waste is compressed-by a ram that for an instant exerts a force of one ton-into a solid, bag-enclosed brick. The bag can be carried out for ordinary garbage pickup and a new paper bag inserted in the machine. Unlike garbage-disposal units installed under sinks, the Masher can crunch up bottles, cans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appliances: Wasting Away | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

...much to the city/country split. That these are all my projections, an emblem for my own schizophrenia. That is possible, but so what. Discrepancy is everywhere. In another mood, it could be discussed in terms of human good and evil, but it would make no more sense. Baba Ram Dass says that the mark of Western thinking is that it creates phony insoluble metaphysical dilemmas to keep people upset and working hard. I am told also that the Cubans have abolished the study of Philosophy in University graduate schools, because it has been shown that it tends to make people...

Author: By David R. Ignatius, | Title: Sorting Out City Life | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...Cambridge policemen-a sergeant and a lieutenant-knocked on their door at 2 Brookline Ave, in Central Square around 7 p.m. They refused to open the door without seeing a search warant, the staffers said, and the police left with a threat to return with guns and a battering ram...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Mole Staff Evacuates After Threat of Bust | 4/17/1970 | See Source »

...mass party, "the battering ram on the left," forces brute change on the managers of parliamentary government-so concluded the Rt. Hon. Richard Crossman in the third and final Godkin Lecture delivered at the Law School last night...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: Labour Party Is the Topic For Final Godkin Lecture | 4/10/1970 | See Source »

...nationalized Air-India, the country's international carrier. Even more important than his ministerial work is his role, conferred by Gandhi 23 years ago, as the Congress Party's harijan leader. It provides him with a powerful fulcrum. When Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri died in 1966, Ram swung his bloc of more than 50 harijan parliamentary votes behind Indira Gandhi, assuring her election as Prime Minister over a conservative Syndicate faction rival. The Syndicate's bosses have never forgiven him. Recently, they tried to break him with charges of tax fraud. As it turned out, Ram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Untouchable with a Touch | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

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