Word: foams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ironically, Constellation was unable to defend herself. The ship has built-in fire-fighting equipment to flood its fuel compartments and cover the four-acre deck with foam in case of heavy attack.* But at dockside, the carrier was most vulnerable to fire damage, and entirely dependent on outside help. At the naval inquiry, Lieut. Milano admitted that 42 small fires had been snuffed out aboard Constellation before last week's holocaust...
...every Cotillion Room or Maisonette, the city has at least 100 small, usually drab, sometimes offbeat places, supporting all the piano players whose mothers forced them to go on taking lessons. Each has something reasonably unique, however slight. At 55th Street's Gaudeamus, tourists go for the foam-rubber padding along the edge of the bar, presumably there to protect them if the bar crashes. The best belly dancing east of Scranton, Pa. goes on in the Egyptian Gardens on West 29th Street. The African Room is full of thatch, fronds, voodoo masks, a men's room called...
...went awry. The lights failed during a taste-test, the man-in-the-street interview turned up a long-winded Piel's fan who would not let Bert get his motivational research questions in edgewise, the labels got switched during a beer test and Brand X's foam lasted longer. Bert and Harry not only spoofed Piel's but Madison Avenue itself, put a new twist in kidding commercials...
September Storm (20th Century-Fox) will soon blow over, but while it lasts the public is invited to contemplate-along with Mark Stevens, Joanne Dru, a wicked-looking foam-rubber shark and a fishily familiar search for sunken treasure -a cinematic curiosity: the first 3-D picture Hollywood has released in five years...
February 28: Thomas S. Gates, Chief of the University Police, replaces the force's water pistols with cap guns, and supplies all men on duty with foam rubber trunchcons. Issues statement: "We have never been stronger...