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Work Harder. After watching portly A. V. Vlasov, head of the Soviet Academy of Architecture, struggle good-naturedly with a tippety butterfly chair, the delegates were shown by pretty, pink-clad hostesses around a futuristic pink kitchen. The Russians were unimpressed. Noting a built-in radio, Kozuilia ventured to suggest that housewives might be distracted and let the lunch burn. When he saw a built-in cosmetics drawer near the sink, he cracked: "And do you also sleep in the kitchen?" Again a builder explained: "You'd be surprised how this helps sell houses." Said Kozuilia...
...Demonstrating the spectacular sleight of hand that seems built-in in all Notre Dame quarterbacks, Paul Hornung led the Irish to a 19-0 victory over the stubborn Hoosiers of Indiana...
Rights & Incentives. Dick Carmichael and colleagues went to work. President Eisenhower was consulted, and under his sponsorship the 1955 military pay raise bill, with its built-in incentives to reenlist, was passed by Congress. So were measures giving servicemen an extra month's rental allowance for each permanent change of station and offering to men still in the services the home-mortgage rights now enjoyed by veterans...
...Built-in Engine. One night a week Wouk gives a course in advanced rhetoric at New York's Yeshiva University to a class of rabbinical students. He owns no car and no boat ("Possessions are disastrous"), but he does own two homes. In addition to the Fire Island summer place, he has a fashionable cooperative apartment in Manhattan's East 60s. He and his wife are homebodies; they love to read and listen to records...
...Built-in Booby Traps. The refugee program was disjointed originally by a Senate tug of war. At first the bill, called the Emergency Migration Act, was intended largely for people from Southern Europe barred by the low quotas of the McCarran-Walter Act, the basic U.S. immigration law. Nevada's late Senator Pat McCarran managed to change much of the content, as well as the title. As passed, the act was an administrative monstrosity which Congress assigned to the State Department's Security Chief, Scott McLeod. There was no staff, no office space, not even a desk...