Word: ink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Specially treated contact lenses (cost: $160) that are almost undetectable. Tinted red, the lenses can catch card markings (made with a special ink that Karnov sells for $10 a quart) that the naked eye would miss. Senator Karl Mundt tried on a pair of similarly treated, standard-size glasses, solemnly warned his colleagues: "Beware the red-eyed gambler...
...sportswriter whose head is not turned by the luminaries of sport and whose typewriter does not print in purple ink, Jim Murray, 42, onetime Los Angeles Examiner, TIME and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED staffer, is a prime example of the new look in sportswriting. Since the days when Paul Gallico, Westbrook Pegler, Ring Lardner and Grantland Rice turned sportswriting into an art (and drew the best pay in newspapering for it), their imitators have filled the nation's sports pages with some of the worst-and occasionally some of the best-overwriting in journalism. This encouraged the notion, said Stanley Walker...
...extract, process and sell to the U.S. up to $9.1 million a year worth of helium, production of which the Government previously monopolized. Next day Watson announced plans for a $108 million stock swap to acquire Columbian Carbon Co., an $80 million-a-year producer of carbon black, ink and pigments.Both moves were part of Watson's strategy to hedge Cities Service's bet in the slipping oil industry by expanding in related fields...
...These spots play an important role in giving his idea different settings: "You've got to be suspicious if anything satisfies you right off." After a quick lunch, Mauldin grids his drawingboard work area into nine squares and begins drafting the cartoon, first in pencil and then in ink. A stickler for just the right detail, he frequently consults his favorite reference, the Sears, Roebuck catalogue, or poses before a Polaroid Land camera (with a self-tripping shutter) to get the authentic look of a clenched fist, a tyrant's sneer, a trouser seat viewed from the rear...
...help out much-troubled Northeast Airlines, the CAB permitted it to fly the blue-ribbon New York-Miami route in competition with vigorous Eastern and National. Result: not only has Northeast failed to make a profit, but the sharp competition has turned the other two lines' black ink to red on that route...