Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Separate Channels. Already the outlying areas are operating almost like separate countries. Djakarta customs officers inspect the luggage of Sumatra-bound passengers as if they were flying to a hostile country. In contrast to Djakarta, Colonel Simbolon's Padang was remarkably peaceful, secure, and spotlessly clean. It was also much healthier economically. Padang's cost-of-living index has risen 77 points in the last five years against 144 for Djakarta; bartering its rubber with Singapore produces an estimated $1,500,000 a month in profits. When Djakarta seized eight South Sumatran ships in an effort to halt...
Backed by a comfortable mixture of sponsors (Sealtest, Hills Bros, and Breck), Jaffe mounted his show with opulent care, and it was played out with style, charm and directness by the Old Vic's delicate Bloom, Claire, and Charlton Heston. Adapter Joseph Schrank's dialogue, clean, spare, and always faithful to the original, gave Beauty the illusion that "all life was still at sunrise, a wonder and a wild desire," made possible such a strikingly gentle image as when Beauty returned to her dying Beast. She touched his hirsute head for the first time, and Beast said, with...
Many of them go about their appointed tasks in spick-and-span, air-conditioned surroundings as clean as a kitchen, as cloistered as a scientific laboratory. A rare marriage of scientific talent and hard-headed business know-how, General Dynamics employs one scientist for every five workers, has a roster of consultants that includes such greats as Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb, and Dr. Theodore von Karman, Caltech's brilliant mathematician and aerodynamicist...
...Clean Haul. In Washington, D.C., Laundry Truck Driver Howard Henry Coleman, 28, arrested for stealing three tons of hotel and restaurant tablecloths and selling them to junk dealers as old rags, explained: "I only took the really dirty ones...
...believe," said the vulture primly, "that whatever is worth doing is worth doing well." He gave Prometheus a dirty look and went back to work. But he stayed an hour overtime that day, worked clean through the liver, and got a good start on the pyloric sphincter. Prometheus went right on thinking about moral uplift, but he was careful to do so in silence...