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...Name & Number. First, of course, comes the matter of the nature of the leak. If it comes from a sink, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Department of Buildings, if from a toilet (sewage), the Department of Health. If it is a leak that causes waste of water, it is the Department of Water Supply, Gas & Electricity. If the leak is outdoors, it is the Department of Sewers. The Fire Department is concerned with leaks occurring near electrical fixtures, and the Police Department if the leak comes from an adjoining apartment. The situation in New York, in fact...
...much do you feel your'liberty is worth?" asked the Rouen judge. "Twenty million francs!" shouted Rhadames Trujillo, 22, son of the slain Dominican dictator, who was thrown in the hoosegow on charges brought by relatives trying to sink their teeth into the family fortune of $100 million or so. "Excuse my client," pleaded his lawyer. "He is blinded by the thought of the freedom he wants so desperately." So the court blinked at Rhadames' clinker, set bail at only 10 million francs ($2,000,000), which his mother, sister and brother put up in a wink...
Holbrook's impact on Britain's educational establishment has been heavy. His five anthologies of prose and poetry are used in thousands of state and private schools. Instead of the usual diet of Wordsworth and Silas Marner, the students get kitchen-sink selections from Hemingway on the birth of a baby, D. H. Lawrence on a son's quarrel with his mother, Koestler on a Communist execution, Joyce on a Dublin funeral. Holbrook's first book on education-combining theory, sample student compositions, and Holbrook's interpretations of their efforts-is required reading at most...
...latest contribution to submarine meteorology was made by modified Swallow buoys,* which are 13-inch aluminum spheres ballasted to sink until they reach water of a selected density. Crammed with apparatus that reports its observations with sonic pings, the buoys can be followed accurately through the depths. They can communicate with each other and measure their distance apart; they can be instructed by a coded sonic signal and told when to drop ballast, rise to the surface, and call by radio for pickup...
...buildings at the New York World's Fair. Last week newspapers around the U.S. blossomed with stories about angry Fair exhibitors who charged that they were being taken to the cleaners by their cleaners. Some of them growled about exorbitant charges for such simple chores as unstopping a sink and emptying garbage. The most general complaint was against the high cost of temporary help, called in to perform specialized, emergency jobs. To get a carpenter on a short-term, hourly basis, exhibitors have to pay $11.51 an hour-and double time of $23.02 after...