Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost any spy thriller, properly dust-jacketed, can sell a few thousand copies to the cloak-and-dagger addicts; the truly great ones have an intangible extra quality of atmosphere that broadens their appeal and propels them up the bestseller lists. Funeral in Berlin, if not quite of the master class, is plausible and pleasant. Its special quality is an ironic humor in the midst of triple treachery. Its plot is of more-than-Byzantine intricacy, with a plump and devious British agent, a German Jew masquerading as an ex-Nazi, a Soviet colonel masquerading as a defector...
...turned out to be a couple of tipsy young Puerto Ricans; the cops drew their pistols and ordered one of the youths to drop the broken beer bottle he was carrying. According to the cops, the bottle carrier answered by yelling, "Come and get it, coppers!" In the dust-up that followed, he slashed Patrolman Thomas De Sutter's face. De Sutler, who was also accidentally shot in the foot by his partner, Patrolman Raymond Howard, had to spend 23 days in the hospital...
...even after leading the Met through a decade of spectacular growth, Rorimer still prowls the museum like a bemused headmaster. Wearing ankle-high combat boots that go back to his Army days,* he roams the halls, wiping dust off display cases, bellowing "Please don't touch the art objects!" when kids tweak a sphinx's beard, or sternly lecturing an adult caressing a caryatid's curple: "That's 4,000 years old. If everyone who saw that had touched it, it wouldn't be here...
Whatever is required for men to cast each other to the dust for a psychological or material end, black folk have just as much of it as the white folk...
...record $1.2 billion. Meanwhile, $1.15 billion worth of commercial air conditioning will be installed. Studies show that factory output rises with air conditioning; one-third of all industrial plants built in the last five years have been air conditioned. Since air conditioners now cool, heat, control humidity, eliminate dust and reduce noise, even 50% of the school buildings erected in Alaska last year were air conditioned...