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Pale Contrast. Friends to whom Tauber recited such sentences at lunch urged him to show the prospectus to a publisher; and Workman Publishing Co., a small Manhattan firm, brought it out as a booklet indistinguishable in appearance from a real prospectus. The joke is now earning a modest profit, which Tauber intends to donate to war relief. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out almost immediately, and Workman has ordered a second printing of 10,000. The publisher has also begun advertising the parody with appropriately sedate "tombstone" ads in the New York Times. The ads make...
NASA insists that the economies will not bring new dangers. Kennedy Space Center Director Kurt Debus says that only one case of sloppy workmanship attributable to morale has come to his attention: having accidentally snapped a screw on a key spacecraft section, a workman glued the other half into place. He feared that he might be laid off if his company-a private contractor -had to go to the time and expense of drilling out the screw...
...nausea, all symptoms of oxygen deficiency, were constant companions of the work crews. Even men recruited from high-altitude projects in the Rockies could not perform at more than 25% efficiency, if at all. "Some would come up, work a day, and then quit in disgust," recalls one workman. "They wouldn't even come back for their tools...
Building and Grounds has just completed installation of bars across all the basement windows in University Hall. At $100 per grill (a workman's estimate, and excluding labor costs), our office alone has $1100 worth of "protection." Similar protection is being afforded basement windows in every building in the Yard...
...Clicqnot Club plant in Millis, a workman was raking hay throuch water which flowed from the factory to the river in order to cleanse the water of heavy pollutants...