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Starting from scratch, the center's planners have been able to break with many a hamstringing tradition. In many hospitals, nurses' shifts begin at 7 a.m. (one of the reasons patients are awakened so early), 3 p.m. and 11 p.m. At Morgantown they will start an hour later, giving the patients a break and meshing better with nursely duties. One of Administrator Eugene L. Staples' many proud exhibits is a food tray with smaller plates and side dishes, based on motivational research...
...Largely because of ink's stubborn presence, U.S. newspapers, which pay a near-prohibitive $134 a ton for fresh newsprint, get less than $20 a ton for used newsprint, which is repulped and pressed into a coarse grey cardboard of the sort used to stiffen the backs of scratch pads and freshly laundered shirts. If there were an economic and efficient way of removing the ink, waste paper could be used over and over again. Last week in Chicago, Marshall Field's Sun-Times and Daily News were both running on newsprint reconstituted from waste...
...presidency." Robert Meyner, the handsome New Jersey Governor who is barred by law from a third term, insisted on running as a favorite son against the manifold pleas and pressures of the state's pro-Kennedy Democratic bosses. He thus won a niche-or, more correctly, a wall scratch-in history (41 first-ballot votes for Meyner), but lost his high hopes for a Cabinet job. "I want my 25 minutes on television," Meyner confessed in a moment of greater vanity than wisdom. "I'm entitled to it." Herschel Loveless, Iowa's Golden Bantam Governor and favorite...
...areas in the world could profit more from water than Tunisia's Sahel region, where some 4,000 farmers scratch out a living. But U.S. Development Loan Fund technicians argued that there was not enough water in the Nebana River to warrant building a dam. "It might be no more than a beautiful white elephant," said an observer...
...fascinating rascals!"--fantasies analogous to those which, by his own testimony, occupied much of Shaw's attention during his virginal youth. The view which permeates Getting Married, however, is that sex is an undignified sort of anatomical itch, which nobody of any character would get married in order to scratch. This doctrine does not strengthen the claim of those who hold it on the interest--not to say the credulity--of an audience...