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...that "the Council must get to work immediately on a project that can capture the imagination of all the students." He told the Council that "fast action is needed" if the HCUA is ever to assume a place of significance on the Harvard campus. "Otherwise this Council will quickly sink into oblivion," he observed...
...feels like the Sorcerer's Apprentice every time she mops the floor, there is SiphO Products' Aqua-Vac-an automatic, nonelectric floor washer and dryer. Hook one end of Aqua-Vac's 20-ft. vinyl tube to a special adapter on the faucet in the kitchen sink, turn on the water, and the cellulose sponge at the business end spreads water over the floor to make a lather with previously sprinkled scouring powder. When the swabbing is done, a twist of the faucet adapter turns Aqua-Vac into a siphon that slurps up the dirty water, empties...
...assertion in the Indian Parliament that he could see no legal basis for Western access to Berlin, Galbraith braced Nehru with documentation. The Prime Minister admitted his error, but said that he would wait to revise his estimate until after the weekend-which would have allowed the error to sink in. At that point, Galbraith suggested a tactfully worded statement modifying Nehru's Berlin judgment. The Prime Minister smiled and, with only one change, agreed to Galbraith's wording...
...likelihood, Barnes will also get the city to sink a lot of money into an electronic-brain control system, which scans traffic flow by radar and switches street signals accordingly. Barnes likes well-marked lanes. When he wants one, he creates it right away with improvised dividers made out of used paint cans; markings and concrete follow later on. He is also a stickler for overhead traffic signals for every lane (and not just every street corner...
...climb was costly. The Chandlers had sunk some $20 million in what, for all its circulation growth, was still a losing proposition. Advertising income remained low, and after touching its 1958 circulation high water mark, the Mirror began to sink. Beginning in 1957, the Chandlers brought in a new editorial team, whose chief instructions were to cut costs on the Mirror and conduct a holding operation. The new management was not successful: of late, the Mirror has been losing money at the rate of $2,000,000 a year...