Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Says No. Congressional Leaders in Washington are understandably worried by this ten-year reapportionment itch. For one thing, some old stalwarts always disappear. One victim of the "Rockymandering" that New York Democrats charge Governor Nelson Rockefeller is planning to cover a two-seat loss will be Manhattan Democrat Alfred Santangelo, a hard-working and valuable agriculture expert, though he comes from East Harlem. And a handful of such changes can shade an entire Congress. Republicans, who will probably benefit as the outs in an off-year election, might well gain control of the House if the returns really run wild...
...past his prime, and so is the Mirror-at 37. Its dubious goal of entertainment has been undermined by TV, and, despite a sizable circulation of 840,644, the paper is chronically anemic -it lost $700,000 last year alone. Unless it can reverse the trend, the Mirror may disappear, possibly by a merger with the Journal-A merican...
...particular, the score adheres, if anything, somewhat too closely to the text: the persons of a Jamesian narrator remains, and a gentleman in Victorian evening dress is required to deliver a dull and quite uncalled-for prologue, and then to disappear abruptly and permanently. A bit upsetting, that...
...suspend the U.S. Navy's blimp program. By next December, all but two of the Navy blimps still in service-on shore patrol and early-warning defense missions-will be deflated and folded away; within another few months, the last of the Navy's "bloopy bags" will disappear from the skies. And so will end an often disastrous, but sometimes glorious saga of the nation's military history...
...unsalvageable lumps emerge as slight, figure-skimming dresses made of featherweight knits and various jerseys, including wrinkleproof synthetic jerseys with synthetic names (Ban-Lon, Arnel, Orion Cantrece, Creslan, Acrilan and Zefran). They can be stuffed fearlessly, without preservative layers of tissue paper, into any suitcase corner, and the lumps disappear, without pressing, moments after the dress has been put on a hanger...