Word: tappings
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...tribesman sadly predicted that Jean-Marie would live some day like white men, drink water from a tap, not from the spring, and even use a tablecloth at dinner. Author Beti, himself a native of the Cameroons, describes the tribal way of life with such affection and good humor that even the hardened Western reader will long to swap his faucets and tablecloths for the refreshing springs and loincloths of the Cameroonian sticks...
With such manpower on tap, the Japanese press can turn loose hordes of newsmen, gives the cops more trouble than the rioters at demonstrations. Japanese photographers vault graves and straddle coffins to get good shots of mass funerals. A reporter once got into Premier Nobusuke Kishi's bedroom. In addition, Japanese papers use flashy modern trappings such as airplanes, walkie-talkies and monotypes that can set some 2,200 Japanese syllabaries and Chinese ideographs...
...Louis University's new $4,500,000 Pius XII General Library, to be completed early next year, the color slides of the Urbino Bible, along with films of all the other photographed works will be on ready tap for scholars. St. Louis University has now become a center for manuscript research previously possible only at the Vatican. To make sure that the film stands as good a chance of survival as the originals, the negatives will be kept in a special fireproof, burglarproof vault, under strict temperature and humidity controls. That the film will never become the sole record...
...start up for 1959's new models-cars whose appeal, or the lack of it, will have a telling effect on the course of the U.S. economy. For what the new autos will look like, make by make, how big the market is and how Detroit plans to tap it, see BUSINESS, The New Cars...
...into her present work by accident when she pitched in to help her husband, who then worked for Name That Tune, Diane likes to think that she is tired of all the interviewing and pavement-pounding. "I've been waiting for years for a cop to tap me on the shoulder and say, 'Lady, what yuh doin'?' God, I wish it would happen so that I could relax...