Word: junks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thin-Slcinned SSTs. Happily, the debris has caused scant damage so far. Like meteors, space junk usually burns up in the atmosphere. Even the few pieces that manage to survive have landed harmlessly enough. No planes have been hit, although pilots have sighted 26 descending satellites...
First-Class Third Class. Murray and Hinshaw decided that they could only do better. Last winter, on an investment of $2,000,000, they formed the Independent Postal System of America. Right now their corporation handles only third-class "junk" mail (which accounts for 27% of all mail), mainly in Oklahoma, with outlets in Tulsa, Ardmore and Oklahoma City, plus one in Dallas. Independent postmen pick up the mail, sort it at central clearinghouses, truck it to delivery routes. Then white-uniformed, bonded carriers trudge to each house, put the mail in plastic bags, which are hung on doorknobs (nobody...
...particularly pleasing for Grosvenor because he has had long experience with the sea. Born rich and raised in the rich stretches of Newport's Ocean Drive, he sails his own 20-ft. gaff-rigged sloop. After studying architecture in Paris, he experimented with abstract expressionist painting and junk sculpture in a Manhattan loft. Then one day he stepped into an elevator that wasn't there, and the fall broke both his legs. In the course of his six-months' hospitalization he meditated and discovered his true bent. Today he first sketches his ideas on paper, next lays...
When he says that "dissident sartorial fashion" is a form of transvestism that blurs sex differences, it seems that he has never looked beyond the long hair and junk jewelry to the girls in miniskirts and bikinis, or the young studs in beards, creeping sideburns and tight jeans. And when he claims that "the Underground" in the U.S. (which he does not define beyond the suggestion that it is a vague association of malcontents) never raised its voice against the Russian suppression of Hungary, he is simply indulging in a naive bit of conspiracy theory...
Duties vary just as widely. Boston police must not only conduct an annual door-to-door census, a chore that consumes ten weeks, but also have to issue permits for dogs, guns, private detectives, itinerant musicians, pawnbrokers, junk dealers, new-and used-car dealers, and hackney cabs. In Los Angeles, policemen going on duty must pause for a reading of schoolchildren's essays on the glories of the L.A.P.D. Red tape envelops every police department, but few can compete with New York's for sheer bulk. A New York cop who arrests a teen-age drug addict must fill...