Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...knows very little about the workings of the large affairs of greater men, but who feels obliged to make a few grand-sounding (but actually not very eloquent) remarks about them. He tells his constituency that he is for free speech, integration, education, and all that sort of thing; but if he is pressed, he begins to stutter...
...news page is always something new, largely because people have a charming habit of not doing precisely the same thing every day. You call Important Sources to Confirm Anonymous Reports; you wheedle information out of truculent Persons in Authority; you write stark exposes of those whom formerly you had thought innocuous...
Harvard's official stand on recruiting by coaches is that this is not their normal function. Davis Jackson, Dartmouth's assistant. Director of Admissions, apparently thinks this is so much mouthwash. "It would be a most amazing thing," he says, if coaches were not to recruit. "What else do coaches do in the off-season...
Village of the Damned (M-G-M). One fine day at precisely 10:57 a.m., every living thing in the pleasant village of Midwich in the south of England suddenly and for no apparent reason drops senseless where it sits or stands, and lies as if dead. A mason jack-knifes over a wheelbarrow; a cow collapses in a field. What has happened? No gas, no radiation is detectable. Then all at once, as swiftly as it struck, the mysterious interdiction lifts. The villagers, the cows, the birds awake. They all feel chilly, but retain no memory of their inexplicable...
With sales dwindling, the entire appliance industry is in the midst of an ambitious program to improve quality. "I'm not saying the whole thing is lousy," explains one Norge executive, "but the automatic washer is probably more susceptible to service than any other appliance in the home." He speaks from rueful personal experience. For years there was no formal exchange between Norge's service department and its engineers, and chronic complaints never filtered back to the machine designers-a gap since remedied. Maytag decided to drop annual model changes, use the savings for better quality control...