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...learn to live with petty annoyances like this in today's high-pressured society," said an unidentified student as he pressed the elevator button...
They dispatched squads of youngsters to sell McGovern buttons on the streets. "Those kids literally wouldn't let people go by without buying a button," says Elstein's wife Barbara, a systems analyst. "We raised $500 that way." Elstein walked up and down the Coney Island boardwalk, interrupting the afternoon dozes of elderly Jewish voters in straw hats. "Hi," he said, extending his hand. "I'm Ken Elstein, and I'm running as a McGovern delegate." He stood for hours at Brooklyn El stations, bullhorn in hand. Comedian Sam Levenson, who lives in nearby Rockaway...
...head of a women's rights program for the Association of American Colleges, Mrs. Sandier, 44, likes to wear a button that says UPPITY WOMEN UNITE. Last week she told some 85 top college administrators and faculty members meeting at the Irvine campus of the University of California that feminists will go all out next fall to get more women hired and promoted at U.S. colleges. They will have help. The session she addressed was financed by the U.S. Office of Education to tell college officials that they must make a "genuine effort" to recruit women and treat them...
...York to Tokyo, but the Washington program has special features. Some 450 Washington buses are now being equipped with radio transmitters that will link them to the central computer. Thus, if the driver wants to set up a series of green lights for himself, he can press a button requesting the computer to give him those signals at cross streets. If the computer, upon scanning the traffic in the area, decides that the request is justified, it will send commands to the appropriate street lights. If the computer thinks otherwise, it will ignore the request...
...process, enrich his life at that moment. This happens as you focus through the view finder. It's not merely the camera you are focusing; you are focusing yourself. That's an integration of your personality, right that second. Then when you touch the button, what's inside you comes out. It's the most basic form of creativity. Part of you is now permanent...