Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steel, had burned away a northern mist that has always obscured his vision. Time and again the grand rectangular frame of the Panavision screen stands open like the door of a tremendous furnace, and the spectator stares with all his eyes into the molten shimmer of whitegolden sands, into blank incandescent infinity as if into the eye of God. It is a mind-battering experience, an encounter with an absolute, and after it too much of the film seems merely human...
Armed with blank check, ballpoint pen and driver's license for identification, almost any American can cash a check at his friendly neighborhood supermarket or liquor store. This shirtsleeves casualness about money has ballooned bad-check losses in the U.S. to an estimated $1 billion a year. But bum-check pushers may shortly find their livelihood threatened by automation. In Los Angeles, a pair of science-minded entrepreneurs are using a digital computer to blot out what J. Edgar Hoover calls "fountain-pen bandits...
...near for the rebels, for British troops began pouring into Brunei by air. Hawker Hunter jets of the R.A.F. buzzed low over rebel emplacements firing blank 20-mm. cannon shells; many rebel troops fled in terror because they had never before heard the shriek of a jet engine. Other rebels fought on, inflicted substantial casualties on Britain's tough little Gurkha troops. The Gurkhas retaliated by lopping off a few rebel heads. Finally British numbers began to tell and the rebels faded away into the jungle...
Hilliard's program has already shown striking successes. Last year a local garment factory tested 25 women on relief for jobs as power-sewing-machine operators. All flunked, many unable to even decipher the application blank. After attending classes for six months, they retook the test; 18 passed. Nine months ago. a cab company rejected five reliefers as drivers because they could not fill out trip sheets. Last week, after Hilliard's treatment, all five were hired; one man earned $20 his first...
...perennial indebtedness by decreasing the flow of love notes, letters to grand-children, inquiries after health and other worthwhile pieces of first-class mail while fostering the insidious growth of gaudy packets addressed to "Occupant Apartment 3A," subscription come-ons to magazines that die even before the enclosed blank can be returned, plastic Christmas cards from liquor stores and similar abominations that have been assigned the hubristic rank of third-class mail...