Word: excessives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woman traveler is rapidly moving out of the Drip-Dry Era into the Smashable Age. For years, her only alternatives were paying excess-baggage fees for wrinkleable clothes of regular stay-at-home weight, which had to be pressed again and again, or going lightweight and drip-dry, in the universally recognizable tourist costumes of Orion, nylon or Dacron, which, if well enough styled at times, were never really chic. But in this season's suitcases, wadded and crumpled like hasty lumps of dough, are vacation wardrobes of considerable elegance and style. The seemingly unsalvageable lumps emerge as slight...
Millions of people suffer from ailments that doctors treat by prescribing low-salt diets. The most important are congestive heart failure and many forms of kidney disease (in which the body retains too much water, to match an excess of salt). Also, salt sometimes complicates cirrhosis of the liver and possibly high blood pressure. Yet in many parts of the U.S. and Canada, says Alberta's Dr. George B. Elliott, the benefits of the low-salt diet are wiped out by the water that patients drink-water loaded with sodium in any of several salts, including sodium chloride (common...
ASTOR: Marlon Brando, when he was about to conclude his first job of directing, called in the cast of ONE-EYED JACKS and asked them to vote on an ending. But it's not only the ending that suffers from an excess of democracy; the whole film is at loose ends--and it has also received more than its share of script-writer's cliche. Interesting as a conversation piece. Evenings...
...good fifty per cent of the photographs in the year-book are almost completely meaningless. There is an excess of puddles and sunsets, and not enough of what we like to call "news pictures." Life in Lowell House is illustrated by several silhouettes of male and female figures; Quincy has a full-page puddle and a Charles River sunset. On the positive side, we can cite a fine portrait of Professor Robert H. Chapman, a good shot of Master Charles H. Taylor in the Kirkland Christmas play and an excellent football picture on page...
...Neither system would appear to permit flight at altitudes in excess of 35,000 feet. Both systems would probably be limited to subsonic speeds, and both would present severe operational and ground-handling hazards, particularly in the event of a crash...