Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...live in England." Nevertheless, Ashkenazy has not been back to Russia since 1963. His parents have not seen their oldest grandchild, Vladimir Jr., 41, in three years; they have never seen their infant granddaughter Nadya. Still, alone of all the Soviet artists who prefer the Western side of the Iron Curtain, Ashkenazy refuses to defect, clings carefully to his Russian citizenship. He hardly notices that each year he edges a little farther away. In the old days, he forgot to put articles in his English ("I had best steak of my life in Cleveland airport"); now he speaks it fluently...
Just about the biggest thing to hit the clothing industry since nylon has turned out to be durable press - a wrinkleproof, permanent-crease process that permits clothes to be taken out of the dryer and worn without a touch of the iron. First introduced in men's slacks two years ago, the process has had a runaway success: it is now being applied to shirts, skirts, sheets and lingerie...
...also surveying and likely to win some multimillion-dollar construction contracts in the Mekong River development project in Viet Nam, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. Throughout Southeast Asia, Japanese businessmen and local entrepreneurs have set up 35 joint companies, including steel mills, auto-assembly plants, transistor-radio factories and big iron, copper, bauxite and nickel mines...
Because of the peculiar nature of the product, France's champagne men can almost plot the world's politics and passions by the way their exports run. Unlike the Western nations, for instance, Iron Curtain nations are extra dry. Communist Russians last year ordered only 3,596 bottles, and Hungary popped the fewest corks in Europe, with 2,188 bottles. The Congolese were Africa's heartiest drinkers, with 104,976 bottles, Zambians the most austere, with only 1,344. Nowhere was the contrast more marked than in Viet Nam. South Viet Nam, with undoubted American help, drank...
...sensible in London to decide that the new continent should be used for a gaol. In 1788, the year of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, civilization in the form of white slavery arrived at Cook's Botany Bay. So came about a bush Belsen, with men in iron shackles under the bemused eyes of the natives trying to grow food in a land innocent of agriculture...