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...Dishwater Test. Like the Michelin, which is underwritten by France's Michelin Tire Co., the Mobil guides are partly promotion gimmicks: Mobil frankly hopes that the books "will build our station traffic." Each guide lists local tourist attractions-many of which are so far off the beaten track that they are all but unknown to natives-as well as hotel and motel accommodations; entries duly note the distance to the nearest self-service laundry, and whether sitters are available or pets permitted. But the most important feature of each volume is the restaurant list, compiled for the most part...
...scientific highlights of any year is the Carnegie Institution's annual report on the projects it has underwritten in fields ranging from physics to plant biology. Most eye-popping items in the 1960 report, which was released last week, were the major astronomical findings made by the institution at Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories in California. Among the notable discoveries and newfound mysteries...
Time after time, in the debate over his religion, Jack Kennedy has announced that neither bishop nor Pope would tell him what to do as President. Many a Protestant has applauded his forthright words but wanted to hear Kennedy's view of Roman Catholic theology underwritten by an official Catholic spokesman. Last week the Reverend Gustave Weigel, professor of ecclesiology at Maryland's Woodstock College, stepped forward not as an official spokesman but as a distinguished Jesuit theologian to express his views. What emerged from Father Weigel's closely reasoned speech on the church-state relationship...
...University Health Services plan, underwritten by Aetna Insurance Company, provides up to $5,000 for illness or injury (except for mental illness or tuberculosis). Farnsworth deemed the plan "far and away the least expensive student health plan of which I know." The reason for the low cost, he stated, was the "good health record" students have attained in recent years...
...weeks he had been reported missing. Then investigators and accountants descended on the Hollywood offices of his Hal B. Hayes Contractor Inc., spurred by the rising cries of creditors who claimed that Hayes owed them millions, and by Chicago's Continental Casualty Co., which had underwritten performance bonds on Hayes's projects. Subcontractors who said they had been unpaid stopped work for Hayes on an Army housing project in El Paso. At several other Hayes projects for the military, subcontractors complained that Hayes's complex of companies had not been paying them for their work. The Hayes...