Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, playing the role of an ex-President who dies of cancer, Gargan himself began to complain of a continually sore throat. Doctors discovered he had cancer of the larynx. His voice box was removed, and what was left of his windpipe now ends at a collar-button-level hole in his neck. When he left the hospital, he was speechless. But last week, like the others at the Memphis dinner, Gargan was talking once more-using esophageal speech...
Backlight is the rear window. Mercury's medium-priced Monterey will have one that opens. Press a button and the center section of the backlight slides down on two runners...
Jonathan Logan has brought modern management methods to a colorfully confused industry. In a business where buyers traditionally go to sellers, Jonathan Logan has more than 60 button-down salesmen constantly visiting the trade, testing trends, reporting on sales. At its new distribution center in New Jersey, a Univac computer sorts and digests day-to-day orders according to models, shades and sizes; with it, the company can toss out slow sellers or step up production in a hurry. Jonathan Logan even has its own C46 transport airlifting fabrics and finished goods to and from its 28 plants around...
...last week climbed dead on course from Cape Canaveral with $4,000,000 worth of sensing equipment crammed into it. Then, after 3½ min. because of what was officially described as "a human error" in the information fed into a computer, Mariner wandered irresolutely off course, and a button presser on the Cape gave it the order to blow itself...
...exhibition the Chrysler Museum has several pieces of sculpture on display, including one of four existing young ballet dancers by Degas and a variety of pieces by Rodin. For devotees of assemblage, Kearney's "Chicken Age" will rattle up and down and around at the press of a button. The message of Province town this summer is that in the still shifting sands of artistic fortune the critic is all too prone to narrowness of vision in judging his contemporaries. But the Chrysler exhibit also presents a historical perspective which the critic can survey and begin to mould into...