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...peace, environmental, religious and political groups drew more than 4,000 people, the largest protest of its kind in the city since the Vietnam War. At Boston's busy Downtown Crossing area, a 12-ft. by 4-ft. antiwar banner attracted so many signatures that four more strips of cloth had to be added. On college campuses around the country, teach-ins and demonstrations were interrupted only by the holiday break...
Most Hygienic Practice As landfills reached critical overload, citizens looked for solutions. Increasing numbers of households bundled newspapers for recycling. Business establishments added bins for recyclable cans and bottles. And debate raged over disposable vs. cloth diapers...
...such example: a worker leaves the factory one day with a wheelbarrow covered with a cloth. The guard looks under the cloth, finds nothing there, and waves him on. The same procedure repeats for three days, when finally the guard asks the employee: "Look comrade, you must be stealing something. What...
...time, direct mail evoked only two names: Montgomery Ward and Richard Sears. Ward, a Midwest traveling salesman, had a simple idea: "Sell directly to the consumer and save them the profit of the middleman." In 1872 he published a one-page listing of 163 items, from red flannel cloth to oilcloth table covers, and mail order as we know it today was born. Fourteen years later, Sears, a Minnesota railroad-station agent, decided to mail a few $12 watches to his peers for $14 apiece. When the ploy worked, Sears hooked up with a Chicago watchmaker named A.C. Roebuck...
Lasers embroidered the curtains with bursts of aquamarine and white to simulate lightning. An electronic hiss and crackle conjured up thunder. Billows of cloth suggested wind and rain, then fell away to reveal the swaying prow of a tempest-tossed Renaissance ship. Its captain shouted orders, wrestled with the wheel, tumbled into a make-believe sea and emerged a moment later as if dragging himself onto shore. He cried in triumph, "Sweet Jesus, I'm alive...