Word: foams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minutes before it got clearance to make an instrument landing. Just as it was touching down, it veered to the right. A wingtip struck the ground, and the eerie, fog-shrouded night came ablaze. Emergency crews were on the spot within minutes, festooning the wreckage with fire-extinguishing foam. Of 46 passengers and five crew members, 26 survived-and 25 died...
Nothing but Foam. Gaullists argue that France's President needs powers commensurate with those of his U.S. counterpart. In fact, the French constitution, the 15th since the Revolution, gives De Gaulle far more; it contains few of the checks and balances that safeguard U.S. freedoms. His power of dissolution is a mighty club over the legislature. France has no independent judiciary empowered to reject unconstitutional measures. Moreover, the President can bypass a balky Assembly at will by taking controversial issues to the people; he has already used the referendum seven times. While De Gaulle calls this process "direct democracy...
...loving and a water-hating end. When the molecules are dissolved in water, their water-hating ends grab firmly at any grease that is present. This accounts for the detergents' cleansing ability. They also grab at water-air surfaces, which is what makes them collect bubbles and form foam...
...detergent with it and also other organic contaminants that may be in the sewage. The bubbles soon collapse, and the detergent collects in a small amount of liquid that is easily treated and disposed of. It can be dumped into any river without causing it to foam. After chlorination, says Engineer Eldib, it may even be pure enough for drinking. Short of selling housewives on the idea of returning to old-fashioned cleansers. Dr. Eldib's bubbles seem the best way yet devised for dealing with bubbly detergents...
...Rosebud Salve to neighboring farmers. In the 35 years since, Dumas Milner has never stopped selling, and last week he did his biggest buying and selling yet. Breaking off the biggest single chunk of his $60 million Southern empire, Milner swapped his thriving household-products business (Perma Starch, Mystic Foam Cleaner, Pine-Sol) with American Cyanamid for $11 million in Cyanamid stock. At the same time, he sold off a parcel of Southern hotels and motels for $10 million in cash...