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...money is needed to transport the immigrants to Israel by air from Vienna (see box), teach them He brew, and retrain specialists whose Russian skills-dentistry and law, for instance-are inadequate by Israeli standards. New housing must also be provided, since Israel is chronically short of living space...
...their family vehicle. Premier Alcide de Gasperi boasted before he died that his regime had "given the motor scooter to the people." Pope Pius XII once publicly praised the motor scooters for "raising the level of life of the social categories who cannot buy more costly means of transport.'' Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini (now Pope Paul VI) put touring lay brothers on Lambrettas, gaining for them the name "Flying Friars...
Included in the rent ($190 a month for a one-bedroom flat to $600) is free bus transport to and from the city between 7 a.m. and 1:30 a.m., free electricity, water and air conditioning. All services, such as plumbing and carpentry, are free. Garage space is $15 a month, and a washer-dryer and dishwasher are each rentable for $10 monthly. There are nine groundskeepers to maintain the lawns, and 15 security guards to keep the peace. "We've always thought it was out of this world," says Irwin Gopnik, a McGill University English professor. Adds Daughter...
Unlike the physical sciences, the behavioral disciplines offer no absolutes. On practically any issue, "scientific" evidence is used to support diametrically opposite points of view. Take vasectomy, for example. According to one recently reported investigation, this procedure for male sterilization (in which the tubes that transport sperm are severed) makes sex more pleasurable and marriage happier. According to another, the operation can lead to less satisfying sex, and ultimately to separation and divorce...
...transport 700 men. The conception was perhaps too grandiose for the times-the plane was only 11 ft. shorter than a 747. After the war, Maine's Senator Owen Brewster demanded to know why Hughes had spent $18 million in Government funds and produced no flyable planes. Thereupon Hughes flew his monstrosity for a mile at 70 ft. over Los Angeles Harbor, the only time it was ever in the air. Today, at an annual rental of $46,000, the plane is hangared under guard on the Long Beach waterfront, a monument to Hughes' lifelong reluctance to admit failure...