Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scandals multiplied and grew bigger. Last winter Hemphill's auditors discovered that an automobile dealer had set up an elaborate shell game with a possible profit of $40,000 by selling new cars to the city, then buying back used cars at cut-rate prices after they had been conveniently "re-evaluated." Dilworth fired the officials involved in the deal, but he was still unimpressed by Hemphill's investigations. "It strikes me as a lot of penny-ante stuff," he said in April-and left town on a round-the-world trip. While Dilworth was gone, Hemphill kept...
Remote-Control Surgery. If it is to live germfree, an animal must be born germfree. This is relatively easy with birds such as chickens. The fertilized egg is germfree on the inside, and its shell can easily be sterilized in a germicidal bath. The "tank" in which the birds are to live can be heated to serve as an in cubator; when the chicks hatch, they can feed and fend for themselves at once. The Japanese quail is even better than the chicken because the birds begin to lay when about seven weeks old (as against seven months for chickens...
...Boston Pops Orchestra continues until July 1 with its popular concerts in Symphony Hall, nightly at 8:30 p.m. except Sundays. Arthur Fiedler conducts. (CO 6-1492). From July 2-14 and July 21-26, (excluding July 8), the Pops Orchestra moves outside to the Hatch Memorial Shell on the Charles River...
...France but in the tiny village of Fuentiduena 45 miles north of Segovia. There it had once been part of a church dedicated to St. Martin (316-397), the great Bishop of Tours whose cult had spread from France to Spain. Though the apse was nothing but a shell exposed to the weather and was not even pictured in a single Spanish book on architecture, the government maintained that it was a national monument. That meant: no sale...
...protect its lion's slice of the British gasoline market from hard-driving competitors, Shell-Mex & B. P. Ltd., jointly owned marketing arm of the Shell group and British Petroleum, turned to an articulate advocate of the hard sell. In as the company's managing director went John Emerson Harding Davies, 45, youngest man ever to hold the post. A World War II major who credits the British Army with "giving me an opportunity to develop initiative," ex-Accountant Davies likes to spend his time with salesmen in the field, argues that many decisions that used to consume...