Word: containers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aware that the combined efforts of the Detroit police and Michigan's National Guard would probably not be enough to contain Detroit's rioters, Romney telephoned Attorney General Ramsey Clark at 3:30 a.m. Monday to let him know that he might have to ask for reinforcements in the form of federal troops. The President, who had been alerted before midnight by Clark that things might fall apart, dispatched Cyrus Vance, the recently retired Deputy Defense Secretary and a longtime friend, to size up the situation in Detroit...
...student's permanent educational record and as to the conditions of its disclosure. To minimize the risk of improper disclosures, academic and disciplinary records should be separate, and the conditions of access to each should be set forth in an explicit policy statement. Transcripts of academic records should contain only information about academic status...
Across the country, the preferred brand is Argo Gloss Starch, available in either the economy-size blue box at 19? or the handy red box at 11?. Both contain chewy lumps that taste, according to one gourmet, like "a cross between milk of magnesia and matzo. The texture is that of an after-dinner mint." Like peanuts, one handful leads to another. "After a box of it," said one woman, "my throat gets kind of sticky, so I go and get a big glass of ice water. Then I get a powerful desire for more." Some enthusiasts spice laundry starch...
Pigeons & Pornography. Even in summer, the suitcase should contain warm as well as summer clothing, plenty of color film to be developed back in the U.S., a rubber sink stopper (many of the sinks are plugless), toilet paper (public washrooms don't provide any), a small short-wave radio for picking up the BBC or Radio Free Europe (the only English-language sources of non-Party-lining news) and an assortment of gifts. Tipping is officially not allowed, and many Russians are insulted by the offer of money. But Intourist guides gratefully accept paperback editions of Hemingway, Faulkner...
...sources in space. It will also yield some of the secrets of spectacular globular star clusters like Omega Centauri, 15,000 light-years from earth. The brightest clusters, including those nearest the earth, can be found only in the southern sky. Since the clusters are believed to contain some of the oldest stars in the Milky Way, they may provide invaluable knowledge regarding the age of the universe...