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...remedy for this cutthroat method of beating the numbers racket, which would still allow those who sincerely want to move as a group to do so, is comparatively simple. A group should submit its intention to move as a unit to the Dean of Residence prior to lot-drawing. The group would then take its chance as a unit, drawing only one number. Alternatively, a group could average its number, as Wellesley groups must do under a similar system. This would give both the individual girl and those who want the privilege of staying together an even chance to pull...
...played up his findings in a six-part series last month on "the Southwest's culture and crime center." It contained little that was new. But by the old newspaper trick of totaling up past gangster shootings and policy wars, Lowall gave the impression that Dallas was a racket-ridden city. His scary conclusion: "A hellbroth of mobster violence and derision for the law is seething" in Dallas and may "boil oyer any time...
...into account the implacable curiosity of science. In San Francisco, University of Michigan Zoologist Karl Lagler reported a 66-day fishing experiment on a quiet Livingston County, Mich, lake (980 man-hours, 1,561 fish). Every other day a colleague buzzed the experimenters in a noisy outboard, but the racket never hurt the catch. Zoologist Lagler's conclusion: a hungry fish doesn't mind noise...
...Harry Wismer sportscast on station KECA were startled when a fierce masculine voice suddenly broke in: "I interrupt this program to bring you a special message. I am the recording engineer making this transcription and I am using this means as a last resort to expose a vicious KECA racket...
...rate was under 10%. ¶ Workers with poor hearing (whether they know it or not) are emotionally upset. Instead of becoming dulled to noise, they become super-sensitive to it. Said one chipper: "When I go home I want peace & quiet more than food. If my kids make a racket, I feel like whipping 'em right away." Hargrave, who wears an inconspicuous hearing aid, believes that much ear damage could be prevented if workers on noisy jobs would wear plastic ear plugs...