Word: box
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning to achieve. During one of the war-planning sessions with the Cabinet, he broke off to say: "This is the most productive and most historic legislative week in Washington this century." He ticked off the congressional achievements, not only of the week but of the year (see box). No President has ever done better-not even Lyndon's hero, Franklin Roosevelt, during the fabled "hundred days." Indeed, many of his programs are actually fulfilling some of the New Deal ideas that were generated 30 years ago and have been gathering dust on the legislative shelf ever since...
...House of Commons last week that the new leader of the Conservative Party was chosen. He was Edward Heath, a man as uncharacteristic of traditional Toryism as the system of open, gentlemanly election by which he was selected. A hard-driving professional politician up from the ranks (see box), Heath edged out Reginald Maudling in a short, sharp contest that left the Conservatives more united than before-a legacy of outgoing leader Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Sir Alec's own selection by the Tories' "magic circle" in 1963 had caused such acrimony that he was led to institute...
Mini bikinis have been seen in America for years. Stores have draped them over bronzed mannequins, fashion magazines have displayed them on their pages, and movies have made them a top box-office attraction. Some U.S. women bought them, but they wore them only in the privacy of their own swimming pools or not at all. Rarely did the bare look make it down...
...minute. With or without background music, the new news channel, its promoters contend, is ideally suited for the C.A.T.V. installations which service areas outside the range of the nearest TV transmitter. To get into the news business, the C.A.T.V. systems only have to plug in Telemation's black box, containing an A.P. Teletype and a TV camera...
...them with laboratory reagents, measuring the resulting chemical change, and recording the results on adding-machine tape or computer cards. Now the company is beginning national distribution of a new shampoo-base hair coloring and this fall will introduce a line of facial makeup with three colors in one box so women can blend their...