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Word: disposall (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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He was destined for the Navy. Son of a Brooklyn real estate man, Anderson developed a childhood love of the sea while running an outboard motorboat in the waters off Long Island's South Shore. A bright kid, he zipped through a Jesuit high in fast time, graduated at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CNO: Unfaltering Competence & an Uncommon Flair | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

Ever since housewives started dunking the family's dirty clothes and dishes in synthetic detergents, the nation's sewers have been swamped by an expanding flow of foam. Down the drainpipe, on through the sewage-disposal plant, the synthetic cleaners keep right on bubbling until contaminated rivers froth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Engineering: Help It Foam | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

>The Kennedy family plane, a twin-engined Convair 240, is up for sale at $375,000. The President used the plane during his 1960 campaign but no longer needs it, since he has a special 707 jet and numerous helicopters at his disposal.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Home Notes | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

"Man is the only species for whom the disposal of waste is a burden . . . especially when he learns to include himself, living and dead, in the list of waste products." Thus does Author Janet Frame begin a strange book about three wasted lives in a dim world that she calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Subhuman Wasteland | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

Ranged against Doloris Bridges are New" Hampshire's two Congressmen, Perkins Bass and Chester Merrow, and Maurice Murphy Jr., who is serving out Styles's Senate term under appointment by Governor Wesley Powell. "Mo" Murphy, 34,' an amiable fellow, is also considered a "Bridges Republican," but he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: After Styles | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

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