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...pool owner is exempt only if he can blame a third party or an act of God. Under "nuisance law." which amply covers swimming pools, the neighbors may also sue or enjoin the poolster from all sorts of annoyances-glaring lights, noisy swimmers, noxious chlorine, and bug-breeding stagnant water...
Sexy Castanets. Posing as a ladies' club president, Anna Russell introduces a series of performers, all of whom turn out to be herself. "Deep down within every one of us there is something stagnant that is dormant," she says. Across the footlights, the sect guffaws. "I do want you to give our artist a welderful wuncum," she pleads. The sect shrieks...
Country Swarm. To U.S. visitors, Bombay seems the most American city in India. In a nation that is currently stagnant, both economically and socially, Bombay is noisily on the move, ablaze with neon signs and with a skyline of high-rise office and apartment buildings. Bustling Bombay pays fully a third of all India's income taxes. Its wide harbor handles some 15 million tons of cargo annually, and its burgeoning industry ranges from the traditional textile mills that owe their beginning to the U.S. Civil War, when the Union blockade cut off cotton from the South, to brand...
After he had completed his mammoth project, Myrdal went home to teach and write about international economics. This year he came back, took a hard look at America and declared that it had a new dilemma. The greatest problem in the world today, he asserts, is the near-stagnant U.S. economy...
...costs of almost $10 per visitor. Houghton contends that the Cooper Union budget will soon not be able to handle such costs, which grow each year, while the attendance does not. "The question," he says, "is whether we are doing the right thing in maintaining a museum with such stagnant attendance. Is there any way we can take these big collections and put them in other institutions where they would be seen by millions rather than by thousands? The last thing we would want to see done would be to take these sub-collections and see them scattered...