Word: colorlessness
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...help you?" asks the salesman Larry. A little guy, about the size of a jockey, with brown hair that flows down his head and wraps around his ears. A thin colorless face. But it's the clothes you look at. His pants. Unbelievable. A garden of paisley. Blue for the background. Quietly blue. And then WATCH OUT. Silver paisley and red and gold, all at once. Moving when he moves. Moving when he doesn't move. Baby baby baby says the radio...
...doggedly for California's claim on tide-lands oil. Looking, as always, for bigger things, he took on Republican Senator Tom Kuchel in 1954, lost in a bitter contest. He practiced law for the next seven years, then decided in 1961 to challenge the incumbent mayor, genial but colorless Norris Poulson. Sam shaved off the mustache he had worn since he was 17 ("I always wanted to look older") and literally rode into office on trash. A major campaign issue that won the hearts of housewives was his opposition to a since-repealed city ordinance requiring that tin cans...
...eight-to ten-hour trip. Another way of transporting small quantities is to mix them in water, soak the solution up in a handkerchief and let it dry-to be cut up later into squares, which LSD users chew. LSD is hard to track down because the compound is colorless, tasteless and odorless, and so potent that a gram, equal to one million micrograms, or 10,000 trips, could be stashed in a single cigarette. So far, illegal LSD is manufactured largely by amateurs, but potential profits represent a strong temptation for organized crime. Tougher legislation will probably make...
Because they live with the constant threat of expulsion for the slightest offenses-real or imagined-Western correspondents stationed in Moscow tend to turn out supercautious, colorless copy. Not CBS's Hughes Rudd. With characteristic zest, he breaks the general journalistic rule, and for some reason he is allowed to stay on. Ever since he arrived in Russia in February 1965, Rudd has twitted his hosts in sardonic, deadpan style. If the censor notices, he is obviously not annoyed; he either likes Rudd's jokes or he misses the point...
...military government, Strongman Enrique Peralta permitted more than 450,000 Guatemalans to go to the polls and in a free and open election reject two military candidates in favor of a civilian: Julio César Méndez Montenegro, 50, leader of the moderate Revolutionary Party. The quiet, colorless dean of the University of Guatemala's law school, Méndez Montenegro promised to promote new industry, head off inflation and, most important of all, create a government completely free of military influence. He rolled up more votes in Guatemala City than his two opponents combined-Colonel Juan...