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...more in number the faces are lighter. Accordingly, the center of gravity favors the 1-2-3 faces, and the faces 6-5-4, which are just opposite, come up. The potential energy of a system tends toward least. Physics or no physics, the theorem holds for your wallet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 10, 1967 | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

...money" for well-placed civil servants. In Indonesia, soldiers stop autos at gunpoint to extort fees from travelers, wander into shops to demand goods for nothing. In Thailand, the wise businessman bidding on a government contract might end his visit to a government official by letting a well-filled wallet slip to the floor and exclaiming: "Why, you've dropped your wallet with 50,000 bahts [$2,400] in it!" One foreign contractor who did just that was dumfounded when the Thai official calmly replied, "Oh, no, I dropped my wallet with 150,000 bahts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: CORRUPTION IN ASIA | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...University Police also provide students with personal and unofficial services. Dean Monro often sends students in trouble to Chief Tonis, whose law degree enables him to serve as "a semi-legal authority." And one senior remembers when his wallet was stolen on a Saturday night his Freshman year. The policeman on duty asked him if he had a date, and when the student replied that he did and had no money, the officer lent him ten dollars and told him "to bring it back sometime...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: The Harvard University Police: Walking The Fine Line Between Cop and Caretaker | 4/18/1967 | See Source »

Candidates for Radcliffe class marshal must bring a wallet sized photo, a typed (triple spaced) list of activities, and two dollars, to the CRIMSON building at 14 Plympton Street before 5 p.m. today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Marshals | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

According to Carlston, his assailants struck him, pushed him to the ground, and then kicked him. The youths then tore a watch from his wrist, though they did not try to steal his wallet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Mugged Near Austin Hall | 1/23/1967 | See Source »

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