Word: cleaner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newest look in grass is turf that never needs cutting, stays green all year, is maintained with a vacuum cleaner, cleaned by soap and water and dries in a trice. No fewer than 16 manufacturers are now turning out artificial turf-also called indoor-outdoor carpeting-for installation at race tracks, baseball diamonds, football fields and tennis courts. In some cases, the turf is changing not only the playing surface but the sport itself...
...Your cover story helps with the hard task of focusing attention on the need for pollution solution. This has been a major problem in New York, trying to keep "fun city" from becoming "foul city." At last in New York we have seen the beginning of consumer demand for cleaner air, leading to new initiatives by the mayor, his imaginative commissioner of air pol lution control, and business leaders. DAVID SHEFRIN Chairman Citizens for Clean Air, Inc. Manhattan Sir: Whenever the cost of cleaner air is calculated, let us remember that the cost of dirty air is far greater...
...have not been able to prove a direct cause-and-effect relationship between air pollution and disease, they have found that the incidence of chronic bronchitis among British mailmen who deliver mail in areas with heavy air pollution is three times as high as among mailmen who work in cleaner regions. Researchers also know that there are more deaths from chronic pulmonary disease in high-pollution areas of Buffalo than in other neighborhoods. Boston policemen working around high concentrations of carbon monoxide seem more susceptible to the common cold...
...trim in her Lycra stretch bra, kisses him goodbye, leaving only a trace of Revlon lipstick. In his Ford Taunus, or G.M. Opel, fueled with Esso gasoline, he drives to an office equipped with Remington typewriters, ITT telex machines and IBM computers. While his wife runs a Hoover vacuum cleaner, a Singer sewing machine and a Sunbeam iron, he confers with his American advertising agency and stops at a branch of First National City Bank of New York. If he sneezes in the wintry damp, he pulls out a Kleenex. If his boss needles him, he calms down with...
...most notable being that he plans to visit Europe and Latin America early in 1967. Back in Washington, he whittled down a stack of paper work. "Look at that desk!" he told Lady Bird and White House Aide Bill Moyers on the eve of the operation. "That's cleaner than it's been in three years." He corrected himself. "No, that's the desk I had in the Senate. It's cleaner than it's been in 15 years...