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...granted. If this technology reduces some of the drudgery of housekeeping, it also renders the housekeeper dependent on machinery--not merely the automatic washer and dryer but the elaborate energy system required to run these and in-numerable other appliances--the breakdown of which brings housekeeping to a halt...
...show of government firepower mounted throughout their city last week. At dawn, long lines of green-and-brown troop-transport trucks began rolling along the Chilean capital's suburban avenues. Soldiers took up positions at traffic circles, machine guns at the ready. Armored cars growled to a halt at the edge of the slum areas in the southern part of the city. Along the dusty streets that honeycomb the shantytowns, rifle-toting soldiers were stationed every 100 yards. Meanwhile, helicopters clattered noisily overhead...
Even the Big Red players get into the act. Last year, as the hosts were introduced, they skated out one by one and skidded to a halt at mid-ice, kicking up a spray of ice at the Crimson. Defenseman Mike Schafer topped off the display by cracking his stick over his helmet and furiously shaking the splinters at the visitors...
...streak of 70 straight games came to a halt last year, as a foot injury forced him to the sidelines for the Lehigh and Brandeis games...
...week ago it was revealed that Arthur Scargill, the militantly Marxist leader of the miners, had made several secret visits to the Soviet embassy in London, apparently in an effort to win greater Soviet support. The Soviets, however, appear to have stopped short of granting one Scargill request - to halt their coal and oil exports to Britain...