Word: plugging
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...mother of two ... I have watched magazine after magazine plug one psychiatric view after another on child behavior-all, as Dr. Hilde Bruch points out [TIME, Aug. 30], without any scientific proof whatsoever . . . As the result, parents are in total confusion . . . Scout leaders report behavior in ten-and twelve-year-olds that usually was relegated to the nursery-school level. But discipline? Ah, that's a dirty word and used only to describe the old Prussian army . . . But the greatest loss of all has been good, old-fashioned common sense. Without this, the genius becomes stupid in society...
...Plugging the Holes. This week FHA moved to plug loopholes in the housing law that had made it possible for builders to make such windfalls in the first place. Henceforth, they will be obliged to certify their actual construction and property costs at the project's end, and return any excess mortgage money. FHA also set out to try to recover some of the millions already pocketed. The charters of the apartment-building corporations formed under 608 prohibit unearned income (i.e., windfalls) from being handed out to shareholders, said Housing Boss Albert M. Cole. The firms that...
...great tradition of American political oratory extends all the way from Patrick Henry to Disk Jockey Lee ("Three-D Lee-D") Dorris, who last week was hired to plug the candidacy of Cayce L. Pentecost for Public Utilities Commissioner of Tennessee. A sample of Dorris' exposition of Pentecost's merits: "Greetings, all you hep cats, gators, lame janes and dream queens. This is Lee D speelin' at you about a real gone cat from Goneville, Cayce L. Pentecost, a real boogie in the know. He's no square from Chicago. Cayce Pentecost...
...rescuing fisherman, whose extended arms are nipped off by the waiting shark. When the fisherman pitches into the water, Manidou gets the rest of him. Guinéo, who hates to study, gets rid of his tutor by taking him out for a row, pulling the boat's plug and letting Manidou handle the rest. Only Mama is really shocked by her son's tricks; daddy and grandparents can hardly conceal their admiration for the little fellow...
...client has mathematicians of his own, he can take home a "patch panel": a metal rectangle containing hundreds of small, marked holes. By connecting the proper holes with plug-in wires, he translates his problem into language that the computer can understand. When the panel is inserted in the Princeton machine, the computer gets to work at once; numbers flash rapidly across a glass screen, and spidery arms push electronic pens up the peaks and down into the valleys of a long graph. A correct reading of the graph tells the answer...