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...third possibility is to plug up the opening through which many students are now using the athletic facilities without paying anything. These enterprises borrow their friends' and roommates' cards, sign their friends' and roommates' names, and play on their friends' and roommates' facilities...
...movie, sports event or Broadway show would be "scrambled," i.e., it would be telecast as a meaningless blur by blocking key frequencies from the television band and channeling them through telephone wires. If a Phonevision subscriber wanted to see a movie, he would call the operator and she would plug in the missing frequencies to unscramble the broadcast. The fee for each movie (perhaps $1) would be put on the phone bill, and McDonald would share it with the movie company, TV station, etc. Phonevision may get its first commercial test next autumn, when Gene McDonald hopes...
...visitors paid two shillings sixpence apiece to wander through Blenheim's halls, gawp at the tiny bedroom where Winston Churchill was born, and stare at the battle flags of his great ancestor, the first Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim's builder. On hand to show them around and plug the sale of a guidebook (threepence the copy) was Blenheim's present owner. "Who's that old geezer?" one broadly accented tourist asked him, pointing to a portrait on the wall. "My grandfather," answered His Grace, the loth Duke of Marlborough, beaming amiably above his Glen plaid jacket...
Super Lesson. The big new stores will plug such hot-selling items as frozen foods and meats ready-packaged in Cellophane; they will be supermarkets in everything but name. Safeway doesn't like the term "supermarket"; it reminds the company of a bad mistake it made in the '30s. At that time, Safeway stuck stubbornly to the idea that supermarkets made housewives travel too far, that they preferred small neighborhood stores. While Safeway stuck to its small stores, A. & P. and other chains totted up their biggest business ever with supermarkets. Now Safeway hopes to make...
While most big manufacturers wondered what to do, Proctor Electric Co., whose toaster had been cut from $22.50 to $17.47, announced a full-scale legal assault to plug discount-house breaches. Then it modified its stand, possibly because discount houses sell a great deal of merchandise. It contented itself with sending letters to its major New York retailers, department stores included, requesting a signed pledge to sell only at listed prices...