Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been an inmate of California State Prison since he was 16. The songs he has learned to sing there all reflect his sorry circumstance-and among them is the latest composition of a prison chum, country music's Spade Cooley. Guy's woeful voice and guitar accompaniment fit the spirit of his music, and in this remarkable album he has the power of a young white Leadbelly...
...never has the change been so constant, powerful and full of hazards. "The flowering of technology goes on faster and faster," says George R. Harrison, M.I.T.'s dean of sciences, "because man's understanding of science is like working out a jigsaw puzzle-the more pieces fit together the easier it is to fit more pieces together...
...argument is that the cult of the prettied-up corpse, put on display in a ghoulish, make-believe sleep, is neither reverent nor religious, but a giant feat of merchandising. She has deadly fun with such astonishing specialists as the Practical Burial Footwear Company of Columbus, Ohio, which offer Fit-a-Fut oxfords (in patent, calf, tan or oxblood) and Ko-Zee, with its "soft, cushioned soles and warm, luxurious slipper comfort, but true shoe smartness." Courtesy Products has a "new Bra-form, Post Mortem Form Restoration . . . they accomplish so much for so little ($11 for a package...
...chrome-plated auto wheels, and hopes for a free lift on advertising from Buick, which will offer similar wheels (made by United) as optional gear on its '64 models. Other firms are narrowing their lines, with the intent of making fewer products better than anyone else. Beau-tee-Fit Co. of Los Angeles retrenched from manufacturing a full line of brassieres to only top-quality models, lately has begun to specialize in nursing bras. Detroit's American Electrical Heater Co. gave up appliances to concentrate on soldering equipment...
...more often than not the contents of a slipcase either have calcified into the classic condition or are so fragile that they need an especially strong container to keep them from crumbling. Most of Janet Frame's stories, sketches and fables in these two prettily boxed booklets fit the second case...