Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frozen custard on the rug, in my shoes, on the dog, on the front door and part of the terrace before I was rescued. Now, when I see her, Caroline gives me that look you get from people who have taken your measure and found you a button or two short...
...ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all. But the ships are very slow now, and we don't get so many sailors any more." The uptown crowd has moved in, and what girl worth her seventh veil would trade a turtleneck sweater for a button-down collar...
...flight information to the ground, the FAA is testing an electronic device called the Automatic Ground-Air Communications System (AGACS). With AGACS, a recorder takes down a running record of the plane's speed, altitude and bearing. When the pilot reaches a check point, he simply presses a button and AGACS instantly transmits the flight data to an air-route traffic-control center. If the pilot is off course, he is instantly warned...
Pushbutton Files. A filing cabinet that operates like a Ferris wheel, delivering files within reach at the push of a button, has been introduced by Diebold, Inc. Because it stacks records to the ceiling, the 16-shelf model can hold as much as six four-drawer cabinets in half the floor space. Price...
Bowles still wears Madison Avenue's grey flannel suits and button-down-collar shirts, has rarely been seen in formal clothes. For recreation he is a real canvas sailor, reluctantly gave up his 50-ft. yawl for a small sailboat when his children grew up. Twice married (he and his first wife were divorced in 1933), he has five children; Son Samuel passed up a Rhodes scholarship to teach school in Nigeria; Daughter Cynthia did a stint as a nurse for the World Health Organization in India...