Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blab-off." This consists of an electric cord of any length, with an on-off switch at one end, the other attached to the speaker in the set. With it you can turn off the sound as you wish, while the picture continues. Any electrician will install this thing for a trifling fee. The viewer then need not pay to the sponsor the "heavy tribute" of listening to commercials "in exchange for often dubious pleasure...
...television set? Ensconced in our sanctuary before the tube, we enjoy eight minutes of continuous work, easily giving attention to both TV and texts. The only interruptions we suffer are during the commercials, when we automatically drop the books and "tune in." It's the simplest thing in the world to study while the forces of good and evil meet in climactic clash deciding the fate of civilization, but it's a sheer impossibility to maintain even an iota of concentration when a beautiful girl huskily tells you to "take...
...people who read about Barbara Triano [July 5] and see a glucose bottle run dry will panic. Venous pressure is higher than air pressure and air will not enter a vein unless it is forced in. The only thing that happens when a glucose bottle runs dry is that some of the glucose remains in the tubing. I offer this correction so that we won't have to give treatment for hysteria along with our glucose infusions...
...past. But manifestly they are not good enough. For every step forward, there have been two steps backward in the growth of slum populations; for every advance in understanding of minorities, there have been two retreats in growing ghetto resentment and despair. Widespread corruption is by no means a thing of the past. A study prepared for the President's crime commission, leaked this month, claimed that in ghetto areas of three cities?Chicago, Boston and Washington?27% of the police regularly committed offenses that would normally be classed as felonies or misdemeanors. Minor shakedowns for meals, drinks and small...
Pompidou also discounted the possibility that De Gaulle had somehow anointed him for the presidency, since De Gaulle had made no move to set up the machinery to effect an orderly transfer of the presidency after he departs-and given no assurance that he would. In fact, the one thing that people close to Pompidou deduced from the situation was that De Gaulle in tended to remain around a while longer. There is now speculation in Paris that De Gaulle's wife Yvonne insists that he must step down late next year, when he will be 79. That would...