Word: foams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fancier Than Scarlett's. To go with the smashable fashions are numerous accessories, the newest and most practical using something called Curon, a thin, transparent, foam-plastic layer that is laminated to wool or worsted jersey as an interlining. Also among space-saving accessories: smashable turbans, many studded with creaseproof beads and fringe; wash-and-wear embroidered lingerie, fancier by far than Scarlett's; Italian nylon drip-dry raincoats, which actually may be more wrinkle than rainproof; tiny, collapsible umbrellas that look like pistols and shoot up almost as quickly...
...word for a drunk in Japanese is tora-tiger. The police have been prohibited by the law from taming a tora unless he becomes overtly violent. Even then they could only politely take him into protective custody, put him in a paddy wagon whose walls were padded with foam rubber for his own protection, lock him up overnight, release him with a lecture in the morning. One remedial variation: tape-recording his drunken expostulations, then playing the tape back to his glowering wife when she came to pick up the limp tiger next...
...ceased to be a problem. A new restaurant, the Fairchild, opened on La Cienega Boulevard's restaurant row, with two collegiate parking attendants, one of whom handles just any old American car, the other babies the foreign jobs, especially the Rollses. In fact, the fellow fits covered, foam-rubber pads on the bumpers before he gets behind the wheel (Rolls owners may buy a pair of the pads at $75). And since it would never do to leave a pet inside a Rolls during dinner, Restaurateur Peter Fairchild also provides three dog kennels fitted with drains and red fire...
Shortly thereafter, a B-26 with Cuban Air Force markings limped into Miami International Airport, one engine feathered, its engine nacelles nicked by bullets. A second B26, with a shot-up engine and landing gear, scraped down on a bed of fire-preventing foam at the U.S. Naval Air Station at Key West. A third reportedly landed in Jamaica. The crewmen, all Cubans, were whisked away before reporters could ask questions. One pilot, who finally told an elaborate story of his day's work, asked not to be named, to protect his family in Cuba...
...full for sound and foam...