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...demands, as street people began to leave and well-heeled Harvard students-the Cambridge merchant's best friends-began to filter back in. But nobody was willing to make long range predictions. The police and the merchants seemed to be increasingly willing to use whatever means were required to transform the Square into a safe place for business. Talking to two longhairs at the end of the summer, one Cambridge policeman, not unsympathetic, seemed to put it best...
...city of Long Beach, Calif., bought the Queen Mary three years ago for $3,000,000, planning to transform her into a luxurious 400-room hotel, with a Museum of the Sea designed by Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau. Since then, conversion costs, paid for mainly out of the city's tideland oil revenues, have leaped from an original estimate of $13.5 million to $57 million. Work was delayed at the start while A.F.L.-C.I.O. construction craft unions won a jurisdictional victory over maritime unions, which immediately boosted labor costs by 50% . The completion date, originally set for the summer...
...passive waiting for a man to enter her life and magically transform it is something that the intellectual woman has been taught to desire as well as to fear. Is it any wonder that we get "hung up," resentful, are constantly being accused by men of expecting more than they are willing to give...
Charges that phosphates in detergents ultimately kill wildlife in streams and lakes have opened new opportunities for Arm & Hammer washing soda. Ads note that it is phosphate-free and, when added to ordinary soaps like Lux or Ivory, can transform them into heavy-duty cleaners. In the interests of "helping save our nation's waters," the ad lists nine detergents with high phosphate contents and advises housewives to switch away from them-in favor of Arm & Hammer and soaps...
...first two waves of the electronic-appliance age have left an indelible mark on America. The nation has more radio receivers than people and more television sets than bathtubs. Now the third wave, the video cartridge (or cassette) player, is about to break upon the U.S., and it could transform the cultural habits of the nation at least as dramatically as the first two. Like pay TV, which for years has been proclaimed as ready to revolutionize the television world any day, the video cartridge has been grandiosely heralded; but even skeptics are now willing to concede that cartridge television...