Word: containers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...village will contain ample training facilities: three gymnasiums, three swimming pools, a soccer field, volleyball and basketball courts, and a full-scale track-and-field compound. The food center includes four 1,000-seat halls and a self-service cafeteria with at least 360 items to choose from daily. A sports medicine clinic will provide on-the-spot treatment of athletic injuries...
Also under construction is an ambitious cultural center that will contain a 10,000-volume library, a concert hall for 1,200, two 250-seat movie theaters and even a discothèque. Already scheduled are performances by the Bolshoi and Kirov ballet companies and by the Beryozhka folk dancers. One bit of bad news for devotees of the high life: there will be no beer halls like the popular one in Montreal...
...what excites him most is something much simpler. In Brazil and Mexico, Coca-Cola is selling soft drinks that contain up to one-third of an adult's entire daily vitamin and mineral requirements and 10% of the protein needs. The Mexican drink has a long-haired brand name, Samson, and orange or mango flavors, though Coke can give it any color and taste the customer wants, even split pea. It is made from the whey that is left over from cheese manufacturing; using this protein-potent residue has a double benefit because most whey now is dumped into...
...costumes reflect today's world. Some of the young citizens carry portable radios. The conspirator Cinna comes in from the rainstorm with a wet umbrella; he carries a businessman's attache case, which when opened turns out to contain knives for the murder (one recalls the old-time gangsters who used to conceal machine guns inside violin cases). The conspirators wear three-piece business suits. The conspiracy is hatched in a cocktail lounge; Artemidorus, the rhetoric teacher, who will try to warn Caesar of the plot, has become a journalist who eavesdrops and takes notes in a reporter...
...recover a portion of this spill and contain and dissolve the rest, Pemex, the Mexican State oil company, has put together a small army of 500 workers, 22 boats and twelve aircraft. But chances of halting the flow soon are dim because the undersea gauges and wellhead are blocked by debris from the shattered rig. Pemex is drilling two intercepting relief wells to tap the oil below its escape point and thus stop the leakage. But such a procedure can take at least two months...