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...bill on time. It doesn't matter if the bill get lost in the mail, or if you broke your leg in your rush to get to the bank. If it's late, you're fined. Last year I was fined, and I went over to Lehman Hall to straighten it all out. The fellow in front of me was doing the same thing, and he had what I thought was an excellent reason for paying late, but all the secretary said was "I'm sorry, but it's by vote of the Corporation." She said it very politely, about...
...Orthodontists straighten crooked teeth; ortho-psychiatrists try to straighten warped minds, specialize in children's behavior problems...
...tried to get his competitors into a joint public-relations campaign to straighten out such misconceptions, but they refused. So five years ago he started his one-man campaign. In newspaper ads, he plugged the theme that "America's Fifth Freedom Is Free Enterprise," with cartoons and folksy parables discussing profits and wage rate-production relationships. Taylor tried the same trick with his annual reports, now thinks that in television he has found the best method...
...conference was called to straighten out kinks in the Inter-American system, to formalize acts taken at five special conferences*held in the war years since the last plenary meeting at Lima in 1938. Major item in the agenda: a new Organic Pact of the Americas, which would give the Pan American Union more power, place political and military matters under its wing...
Almost overnight, the namby-pamby Tacoma Times had turned into a crusading newspaper (TIME, Feb. 16). Many Tacomans, unused to forthright journalism, were confused by the new style. In an editorial, Editor William A. Townes tried to straighten them...