Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican Administration's policies. Finally, last week, Johnson took his tongue out of the cheek he had been turning. "This one-man rule stuff is a myth," cried he on the Senate floor. "It does not take much courage, I may say, to make the leadership a punching bag...
Died. Elliot Ettelson Cohen. 60, editor of the monthly Commentary since its founding in 1945; by suffocation (a plastic bag over his head); in Manhattan. Though he addressed his magazine to a Jewish audience and filled it with Jewish lore and scholarship, Cohen included political and cultural articles of such vitality and penetration that he won a broad, loyal readership...
...other agents across the country rattled similar orders. Project Green was efficiently carried out-and in its bag wound up 21 of the sleepiest-eyed bigtime hoods to be collared in many a long year. For Project Green was aimed at the guests at the Apalachin barbecue...
...sealed space craft, what becomes of the body heat generated by a passenger? A guinea pig wrapped in a plastic bag would boil to death in its own heat in 15 minutes. And a man in an airtight capsule would cook himself in seven minutes. Last week Project Mercury researchers reported they had found a solution to the problem. The spaceman's body heat will be absorbed by a circulating water system. The water will boil, and the steam will be vented into space in a long, thin, man-made vapor trail...
From the "hungry i" (The Kingston Trio; Capitol LP). One of the most gifted trios in years offers an artfully mixed bag of selections from a San Francisco nightclub program. Included are a French lullaby, a calypso number, a Zulu hunting chant and a stunningly arranged version of They Call the Wind Maria. The group has antic imagination and enough craft to strike sparks from as shopworn a number as When the Saints Go Marching...