Word: fold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...track them down." To provide designs for issues she has called on the services of Andy Warhol and Quentin Fiore, co-author with Marshall McLuhan of The Medium is the Massage. She is collaborating with Buckminster Fuller on a future issue in which each article will be designed to fold into a geodesic dome or other geometric construction. Also in the works is an issue devoted to the Far East, with scrolls and screens scented with incense, and a wilderness issue, complete with a wild-food recipe kit for gourmet survivors...
Australia fears that its own position would be badly compromised if the U.S. were to fold the protective military umbrella it holds over Southeast Asia. Since World War II, it has based its defense on joint efforts with the U.S. and Britain to halt the spread of Communism on the Asian mainland...
...stockholders like to open their annual meetings with a round of applause for management-and they have ample reason. Since 1960, when Chairman Joseph Chamberlain Wilson introduced one of history's most profitable single products-the Xerox 914 office copier-the company's sales have increased 18-fold (to last year's $701 million), its profits have grown 37 times (to $97 million), and its stock, long the shiniest of the glamour issues, has increased in value 50 times to the latest close...
...increase in infiltration" since Johnson's March 31 order to curtail the bombing. But Dean Rusk, testifying on the foreign-aid bill before a House committee, said infiltration had increased. Indeed, some intelligence sources claim that 30,000 infiltrators poured into the South in April alone?a 2½-fold increase over the normal rate?and that their weapons were new, excellent and plentiful...
...orchids to oranges. Tetraethyl lead in auto exhausts affects human nerves, increasing irritability and decreasing normal brain function. Like any metal poison, lead is fatal if enough is ingested. In the auto's 70-year history, the average American's lead content has risen an estimated 125-fold, to near maximum tolerance levels. Arctic glaciers now contain wind-wafted lead...