Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...single neutral administrator to supervise inspections, demanded instead the now famous "troika"-or three-man-control over all aspects of a test ban. This would give the Communists a veto any time the Western member at a lonely inspection post deep in Russia decided a suspicious cloud of dust or a distant rumble needed checking out as a possible illicit nuclear explosion...
...special magnet ($150) that can be worn inside trousers, also for use in partnership operations. While one gambler tosses dice in which metal dust has been worked into the paint spots, his partner stands at the other end of the table, controlling the spots by imperceptible body movements...
...just about replaced the real thing. Many hotels order their phonies under a lease arrangement that calls for a seasonal change of blossoms to avoid having their lobbies decorated with poinsettias in July. In San Francisco some artists use the plastics for models in their still lifes. Texas housemaids dust the flowers weekly instead of changing the water daily. On the West Coast, green-thumbed weekend gardeners have been known to hoodwink their neighbors with lavish beds of plastic tulips. Tired of watching their natural flowers succumb to blight, drought or neighborhood dogs, many Detroiters have replaced them with artificial...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The grapes of wrath are pressed again as Walter Cronkite & Co. revisit The Dust Bowl, interviewing farmers who stayed with the land and are still there...
...magician with a bat, Cobb was almost as wizardrous in the field; he once threw three runners out at first base from the outfield in a single game. And on the base paths he was dazzling. Swirling through a cloud of dust with razor-sharp spikes flashing high, Cobb gave baseball some of its most memorable moments. He stole 892 bases, 96 in a single season (1915). Three times he stole all the way home from first base, and once, recalls Casey Stengel, he scored from third on an infield pop fly: "Ty just waited until the infielder got ready...