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...Perry, who with his wife is contemplating a film on American marriage, questioned its value. "Art must ultimately be a distillation. You have to choose what is significant, what symbolizes a state of affairs." He hoped that television would siphon off a segment of the audience, leaving a more demanding group to support the cinema...
Birrell then persuaded the board to permit the transfer of many of United Dye's assets to worthless insurance companies that he controlled. After he had managed to siphon off some $2,000,000 of the company's assets, Birrell sold his 38,500 United Dye shares. They went to another swindler. Alexander Guterma, who installed himself as chairman and Dardi as president...
...they do mean that the island is approaching what Howard Parsons calls "a position of self-sustaining economic growth." The Formosans are learning fast. Aware that the 1964 Olympics will be held in Tokyo, they have built three new hotels in Taipei, are building three more. Purpose: to siphon off a good number of money-laden tourists on their way to or from Tokyo...
Spending more than half of this year's federal-university research outlay, these centers tend to siphon scientists away from teaching, but they also get research done-and perhaps in its proper place...
...faucet in the kitchen sink, turn on the water, and the cellulose sponge at the business end spreads water over the floor to make a lather with previously sprinkled scouring powder. When the swabbing is done, a twist of the faucet adapter turns Aqua-Vac into a siphon that slurps up the dirty water, empties it in the sink, leaving the floor clean and dry. Says Family Circle Magazine: "The greatest thing since sliced bread." Price...