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...LEPER LAW" BANS OUR GIRLS, headlined London's Daily Mirror, in wry reference to the fact that the restriction on visas was ordered under a section of the U.S. immigration law that prohibits entry of aliens who are "afflicted with leprosy, who advocate polygamy, and whose employment will adversely affect wages and working conditions" of Americans. Despite the presence of an estimated 3,500 English secretaries in New York, the city actually has a shortage of typists and stenographers. But the U.S. Government, suspecting sharp practices by some employment agencies, grew worried as visa applications began piling...
...idea is too small. A Liberty Mutual office worker suggested that the company install a second mirror in the ladies' room. "It turned out to be a great timesaver," says an executive of the company, which paid her $15. Most ideas are more technical, and many are more lucrative. The record award-$72,186, spread over the past three years-went to two IBM technicians, Charles G. Glancey and Lawrence R. Livigni, who figured out a way to eliminate 14 printed circuits in a computer. Along with other suggestions for which General Electric has paid $14 million...
...Mirror of Tone. The concert-one trio each by Beethoven, Brahms and Schubert-displayed both the sweep of each man's virtuosity as a soloist and the perfect rapport the three share when playing together. Istomin hulked mightily over the keyboard to delve deep into the music with the sensitive phrasing that distinguishes his playing. Stern and Rose were so perfectly matched that Rose's 1662 Amati cello seemed at times the baritone voice of Stern's Guarnerius violin. In passages in which phrases are repeated alternately be tween them, each provides a mirror of the other...
...paper, like Britain itself, in the glorious past. Once the Times commanded more readers than all other national dailies combined; today it is the least of them, with 254,000 circulation: 2% of total newspaper readership and less than 5% of the circulation of that popular giant, the Daily Mirror...
...William has devoted himself to producing a paper that swears allegiance to nothing but the truth, and to Britain. Last summer's Profumo scandal was reported so explicitly in the Times in the Law Reports, where the racy testimony ran verbatim-that Daily Mirror Tycoon Cecil King was moved to envy: "The Times gets away with legal pornography." But the Times also found a moral lesson that the rest of Fleet Street missed: "Eleven years of Conservative rule have brought the nation spiritually...