Word: filteration
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...coming of Fall seemed to promise some respite from the daily tension of the confrontation between street culture and commercial demands, as street people began to leave and well-heeled Harvard students-the Cambridge merchant's best friends-began to filter back in. But nobody was willing to make long range predictions. The police and the merchants seemed to be increasingly willing to use whatever means were required to transform the Square into a safe place for business. Talking to two longhairs at the end of the summer, one Cambridge policeman, not unsympathetic, seemed to put it best...
...subject. Before a picture is completed, as many as 40,000 "bits" of such information may be needed. The picture may be shown simply in black and white with shades of gray representing different temperature ranges. But color can be added with the use of appropriately positioned filters. Whenever there is a sufficient change in heat intensity, a different color filter pops in front of the thermograph's internal light bulb. The resulting flickerings are then recorded on color film, with each hue representing a different temperature range. Colors are arbitrarily selected. Warmest areas are represented by shades...
...steel company giving up smoking. Imagine Armco." Potlatch Forests, Inc., a lumber company, has ads with scenes of forests and wildlife. One shows a sparkling, pine-flanked waterway over the headline: "It cost us a bundle, but the Clearwater River still runs clear." The message: Potlatch installed a filter plant to remove wood and bark deposited in the river by its Idaho logging operations...
Anna and Bonnie. Style, it developed, did not have to filter down to the streets: it might just as easily, and did, start there. The hue and cry for custom clothes, at full pitch only five years ago, has become a whisper in the stores. Says Bonwit Teller President William Fine: "The line-for-line derby is not consistent with the changing times and mood of the consumer." Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy's and Alexander's have dropped their import copies. Lord & Taylor plans to continue its reproductions in different fabrics. But the only Manhattan department store still...
...this time, word of Tommy's activities had spread to neighboring universities, and tales of similar exploits began to filter back to Hobart. Tommy the Traveler, it seemed, had been a familiar figure among radicals in upstate New York colleges since...