Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HELSINKI, host to the Olympic Games, a city of 400,000, was abustle. Shop shelves were heavy with wares. Flaxen-haired girls in bright print frocks ate ice cream in the Mannerheiminiie. In the busy streets, pedestrians hailed taxis and visitors alike with their "Hej!" (pronounced hay), which, like America's "Hi!", serves equally as well as a greeting, a toast, or a bid for attention...
...although outwardly neutral like all the hotel employees, is wearing (according to Ikemen) an Eisenhower button on her slip. That is one of the latest eve-of-battle bulletins from Chicago, as the city braces for C-day amid tornadoes of campaign literature, jungles of telephone wire, rivers of ice water and the thunderous fizz of headache powders...
Reported TIME Correspondent Tom Lambert: "The fear shows clearly in the faces of the few who flee. I have seen the same silent terror in the faces of North Koreans stumbling southward, wading ice-crusted rivers, to escape the Red armies...
...sometime Actress Gregg Sherwood, 26, whose announcement last year that they would get married was pooh-poohed by Dodge as just an attempt to get more free publicity. On the terrace of the Palm Beach Casino-where 40 guests enjoyed mounds of orchids ($15 each), 60 lbs. of ice-encased caviar and a $1,000 display of fireworks-Horace presented his platinum-blonde friend with a $4,290 gold bracelet (her collection of gewgaws from Dodge already includes a $3,000 gold cigarette lighter and a $74,290 diamond ring). Said Dodge, who is still waiting for a final divorce...
...better method. He puts a film of collodion on a copper disk cooled with liquid air (temp. ~377-6° F.). Then he sprays his microorganisms on the cold film. They freeze solid in a flash. When he pumps the air from around them, their moisture passes directly from ice to vapor, leaving their empty husks in the exact shapes they had at the instant they were frozen...