Word: ion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congressman who had called him a "demagogue and conscious liar" (both were slightly nicked). A year later, his wife left him for another man. and the scandal rocked Lima. Belaúnde won a legal separation, was awarded custody of their three children-and plunged on with his Ace ion Popular. He published a book pleading for the integration of the highland Indian in the national economy. "This," he wrote, "is the great battle that still has not been fought in the conquest of Peru...
...eleven states and 48 of the nation's biggest cities. In Septem ber they scored impressive gains in local elections in the Saar and Rhineland, whose formerly hostile Catholic populations know that the "new" Socialists have abandoned their attacks on the church. The latest national public opin ion poll gives the Socialists a 7% lead over the ruling Christian Democrats...
...negative-an innovation potentially as important as the Polaroid process -and announced plans to introduce a Du Pont color film for home movies. > Brought out an unusually versatile plastic, Surlyn, which scientists can make either hard or soft, transparent or opaque, thick or thin simply by jiggering its ion content; it will be used in such varied products as packaging film, pipes, costume jewelry. >Embarked on an expansion project to enlarge its eight big textile plants and to launch a full-scale assault on foreign markets, where Du Pont is building seven new factories to take advantage of profits...
...ductless hood for the stove, just introduced by Puritron, uses electronics to cope with the smoke and grease that all too rapidly foul the usual hood's charcoal filter. A tiny ion tube of gold alloy releases a stream of negative ions when the hood is turned on, promptly attacking the positive ions in the air, around which the molecules of smoke and cooking odor gather. This precipitates the molecules on an easily washed aluminum filter-releasing fresh, clean air again. In three sizes and colors...
This tendency to defy established un ion leadership is caused partly by a kind of anticolonialism on the part of locals that want to play a bigger role, partly by the political and technological challenges - such as automation - that have created a climate of discontent in U.S. unions. To many in the rank and file, labor's aristocracy seems old, aloof, often tyrannical, and too busy discoursing on foreign policy or participating in university colloquia to keep in touch with grass-roots concerns. Some annoying habits of union leaders that are ignored so long as they deliver-frequent travel...