Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neglected to mention that there are very few full-time freelancers; almost all of us have a bag going for us else where. Alas, it is indeed a vanishing profession; but when was it otherwise...
...vignette, an Easter Sunday in a Pittsburgh slum. Eddie, a young Negro, returns from a year spent kicking the heroin habit in a Southern institution. Filled with tentative hope, he quickly finds that home has the same old tensions and temptations, that he is in the same old "black bag." In a foul tavern he encounters an alcoholic teacher on the verge of a breakdown. Though Eddie at first pegs him as a sentimental phony, their encounter grows from hostility to some understanding, and each leaves with a little more dignity and strength than he had before. A wisp...
...reaches unreachable kids by getting them to relate their time to the opening lines of Dickens' Tale of Two Cities ("It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"). "Sandy gave a special dimension to the picture," says Bel Kaufman, author of the grab-bag epistolary novel on which the film is more or less based. "She's a much more vulnerable and sensitive person than the character in the book...
...basis of a "coffee year" that begins in October and ends in September, the grower nations represented at the London conference will harvest 62,200,000 bags of coffee beans this year, each bag containing 132 Ibs. of beans. Of this staggering total, the consuming nations will get only 46,850,000 bags, leaving another 15,000,000 or so to be consumed at home or added to the warehouses. What makes the gap more disturbing is that some coffee-drinking nations are not even drinking as much as they used to. In the U.S., which takes...
Bell's ACLG permits landings on the most rudimentary runways and also on ice, water, sand, swampland, and terrain dotted with obstacles, such as rocks half the height of the inflatable bag. Deflated in flight, the ACLG hugs the bottom of the aircraft without causing aerodynamic drag. "We consider the ACLG a complete technological breakthrough in landing systems," says David Perez, civilian project officer in the Flight Dynamics Laboratory at Wright-Patterson A.F.B., Dayton. And so last year, the Air Force awarded Bell a $99,000 contract for wind-tunnel tests of the ACLG. Now Bell...