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...Common Market, underemployment becomes an advantage: Greece is the only Market member that offers surplus labor. Recruiters from the great companies of Western Europe scour whitewashed Greek villages for willing workers, and 100,000 Greeks are now working in West Germany alone. To keep the men at home but get them off the farm, Greece's economic policymakers are pushing through many business-priming laws...
...potatoes until last, usually accomplishes nothing except upset his mother's appetite. But the kid is right and his mother is wrong, says Dental Surgeon Howard R. Raper of Albuquerque. Sweets eaten at the beginning of the meal leave little sugar in the mouth, because later courses scour it away. And sugar remaining in mouth crevices promotes tooth decay...
...limelight from the abstractionists. Their purpose is to free art from its own limitations by rejecting any dependence on traditional materials-the painter's oils, the sculptor's bronze. Assemblers believe that art can be found in any facet or aspect of everyday life. They scour attics, dumps, and shops to find objects that catch their fancy. They arrange these objects without any regard for what they were in their ordinary existence. The theory is that, placed in new and startling contexts, the objects will take on a new life, assume new meanings, reveal some unsuspected truth...
Advised to be more cautious, the builders only step up their selling campaigns. Agents scour the North selling lots for retirement homes at $10 down, $10 a month. Other builders have launched a campaign to convince Northerners that they can afford a second home in Florida. General Development President Frank Mackle Jr. will sell a furnished house in his Port St. Lucie Country Club development for an average down payment of $5,200. When the owner is up North, Mackle rents it to tourists, puts the rent toward the mortgage. Says he: "We are not selling sunshine, climate, or even...
...Pick a tough, independent deputy mayor who would scour up the 20-odd headlined scandals that have tarnished Wagner's purchasing department, police department, etc. Already approached for the job: able City Planning Commission Chairman James Felt, who likes the idea...