Word: dacron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also co-written by Kenney), this work was a replica of a second-rate school annual, right down to the pushy ads for local merchants and the classmates' autographed cliches in the margins. The book is so rich in social detail that it brings a whole fictional town, Dacron, Ohio, to life. The new Sunday Newspaper Parody is the Dacron Republican-Democrat (slogan: One of America's Newspapers). The two parodies take aim at small-town American life in the '70's with the same spirit, and occasionally some of the pathos, of Sinclair Lewis...
...like the trills of a fine human voice, One of the Boys shows why Roger Daltrey is riding his Honda 500 and having a beer at the pub, instead of weaving dacron at the textile factory. It proves beyond any doubt Daltrey is more than one of the boys...
...after President Carter nominated him, the Alabama federal district judge was discovered to have an aneurysm, or abnormal swelling, of his abdominal aorta. After a 70-minute operation performed by Houston'. Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, in which the weakened portion of the aorta was replaced by a Dacron graft, Johnson was reported to be in "excellent" condition. He is expected to recover completely in six weeks. If his return to health is delayed Johnson said he would ask Carter to "secure someone else for the directorship...
...marshaled all the power of the White House to force a steel-price rollback. Still, steel men note caustically, aluminum makers in November announced price increases of as much as 11 % on some products without drawing any special political comment. Even more striking, Du Pont raised the price of Dacron staple fiber up to 10%; yet Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro was welcomed to a long conference between Carter, his economic aides and some businessmen at which the participants discussed, among other things, what to do about steel prices...
...same sluggishness prevails in the man-made fiber industry, although sales of Dacron-one of many fibers produced by Du Pont-continue strong. Du Pont still is suffering because of downturns in clothing sales and the housing slump. Chairman Irving Shapiro has predicted lower fourth-quarter earnings for the chemical giant. The industry, he says, has 30% more capacity than in 1973. Sales of aluminum are brisk, but a Reynolds official says that costs still are not being covered...