Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the British colonials spread the color bar throughout their empire, at home the British have clucked over racism in South Africa, given a friendly welcome to Negro G.I.s and enjoyed a feeling of moral superiority over Little Rock. But last week England discovered for itself the queasy sensation of racial tension...
Velcro is not only jamless and washable, but can be manufactured in any width or color. This fall Velcro fasteners will appear on everything from women's mink sweater collars to men's slacks...
Flameproofing. A liquid flameproofing that is colorless, odorless and harmless to most fabrics' quality and color, but which withstands 1800° flame, was put on sale by the International Flameproofing Corp. of San Antonio. Price...
...early, jealously guarded secret was the method for melting designs in enamel into rich, dark blue glass (see color). By the 16th century, turning from enamel, glass blowers were getting their effect from glass alone, embedding canes of opaque white glass to form latticelike patterns, or trapping pockets of air between the rods of glass to make Venice's famed vetro di trina (lace glass...
Contempt for most classroom cinema is justified, but four new color films on chemistry-two for high schools and two, still in production, for advanced college study-should do much to wipe it out. The producer is Hollywood Film Maker John Sutherland, who has reeled off award-winning documentaries, among them the 1954 cancer film, Horizons of Hope, as well as binsful of eye-scratching TV commercials and industrial gong beaters. Sutherland's chemistry films, his first purely educational projects, are concentrated (about 15 minutes) doses of basic science, without musical scores or might-of-industry hoopla. They...