Word: buffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cover. Some of the companies creating Pugetopolis are showing considerable conscience. On its 1,200 acres, Intalco has planted bird cover, posted the lands for hunting, leased ground cheaply to neighboring farmers and, where possible, kept the cherished fruit orchards. Its buildings are painted an inconspicuous earthy green and buff. Near Intalco, at a $50 million refinery, Mobil has built in a system for the bacteriological destruction of poisonous phenols, so that wastes discharged into Georgia Strait are not harmful to sea life. Every year Mobil surveys alternately the health of sea and plant life and the health of oyster...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY (Golden). A useful little platter to have around the house before cutting the cake. Its 15 favorite games from Blindman's Buff to Simon Says will keep the children busy and mother blissful for a tuneful 20 minutes each side...
...soon won fame of sorts as the President's most ardent public drumbeater ("I sleep each night a little better because Lyndon Johnson is my President") and as a master of purple-hued prose. He is also, it seems, a tolerably knowledgeable history buff, gushed almost as effusively over Historian Thomas Macaulay in last week's Saturday Review as he ever did over Lyndon Johnson...
...There's nothing new about nude lovers. What is new to the American college community is the desire to see one's own sex in the buff. Though these clubs make much of heterosexuality, they seem to be a manifestation of unconscious homosexuality. They represent still another aspect of our one-sex society...
...them excellent appointments to sensitive agencies, notably those responsible for narcotics, welfare, buildings and parks. Though Lindsay's vaunted equanimity has also suffered, he recovered his good humor long enough to supply a surprise postscript to the annual musical lampoon staged by political reporters. Always a show business buff, Lindsay donned straw hat, white gloves and cane for a soft-shoe song-and-dance routine with a professional partner. "Maybe," he quipped, "I can save this show yet." That hopeful observation was clearly not limited to the evening's entertainment...