Word: dyes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...placed an entire airplane in a huge mechanical jig, is literally shaking it to test its vibration tolerances. A whole wing section complete with engines has been taken off the production line, is being twisted and bent to destruction to check its strength. All critical parts are being dye-tested for surface cracks, X-rayed for hidden flaws in the metal. Most rugged test of all: Lockheed pilots are flying a minutely instrumented Electra through the extremely turbulent "Sierra wave'' over California's Sierra Nevada mountains, are slamming into the wind-shears at high speed...
...just intimidated was not a Negro but a white. He was John Howard Griffin, 39, Dallas-born author (The Devil Rides Outside) on assignment for Sepia magazine, a Negro monthly (circ. 61,975) published in Fort Worth. His skin darkened by pills,* ultraviolet treatment and vegetable dye, his straight brown hair shaved to the poll, he was touring the Deep South to see how it felt to wear the black man's skin. In the current issue of Sepia, in the first of five installments. Griffin began telling what it was like...
...moon, given an entirely different calendar, how will Jewish astronauts be able to tell the eve of holidays? 2) How will they perform the monthly sanctification of the New Moon, being themselves on the moon? 3) What color will they dye the ends of their prayer shawls-blue on earth, to denote the color of the sky-when the lunar sky is black? Answers: Jews on the moon (or anywhere) are earthlings, must act according to terrestrial time and custom...