Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Comptroller Abraham Beame disclosed that 100,000 welfare checks adding up to almost $9,000,000 had been forged over the last five years. Any client who claimed that he lost his check would routinely be issued another by obliging welfare workers, making chiseling a simple matter. When their shoe allotment was cut off in 1968, many recipients simply put it on the other foot, as it were: the bills for orthopedic shoes issued under Medicaid began to rise suspiciously. When they reached an annual cost of $4,000,000 this year, officials tightened the laces to make shoes harder...
Worlds of Luxury. The slap hammer will work on any make of automobile. It is just one device employed by New York car thieves; another is the Curtis key punch, which costs about $150 and will fit in a shoe box. Using a code stamped on the lock tumblers of all American and most foreign cars, an operator can quickly make a "slave key" that will work in both door and ignition...
...meanings of the parables themselves are lost as the audience concentrates instead on the imitations--Groucho Marx, Jack Benny, Shirley Temple and Donald Duck are numbered among this lord's disciples--and the song and dance routines. There is a soft-shoe number (Christ and Judas singing "All for the Best"), a Simon-and-Garfunkeler ("On the Willow," a hymn to crucifixion), and a nice example of that newest of song-types, revival rock ("Day by Day.") Although most of Stephen Schwartz's songs are interchangeable, Godspell avoids the free-formlessness of Hair. From the sight gags to the pantomimes...
Most zoos with animals like Tasmanian rat kangaroos, white dolphins, snow leopards, cheetahs and a rare Indian barking deer would be swamped with visitors. Cell Biologist T.C. Hsu (pronounced shoe) has assembled more than 300 rare species in a collection that rivals New York's huge Bronx Zoo; but it draws no crowds. Dr. Hsu's pets are all in test tubes, stored in steel bins at the University of Texas' M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute...
Norman Cousins dropped the other shoe last week: after 31 years, he resigned as editor of the Saturday Review. When the magazine's new owners announced plans to turn the Review into a base for a cultural conglomerate (TIME, Nov. 22), Cousins guardedly said that he would "stay around as long as I feel I'm genuinely useful-and not one second longer." After only a brief period of indecision, he decided he could not remain with a Review that would no longer reflect his own high-minded, liberal mixture of reviews, trend reporting and commentary...