Word: kit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a high concentration of low income families: 15.3 per cent of Cambridge families were living (in 1960) in abject poverty with annual incomes of less than $3000 as compared to 11 per cent for the Boston Metropolitan area. --from Economic Opportunity Information Kit, given to all members of the City Anti-Poverty committee in Decembebr...
Slot-car racing seems to have been invented in England, but it might have been made to order for the U.S. market. Model builders and tinkerers have almost unlimited scope for fiddling the hours away with a tool kit; automobile buffs can at last possess that low-slung Ferrari or that hot-rod Model A (or both); will-to-winners can frazzle their adrenals with high-test competition, and Walter Mittys can pocketa-pocketa to a screaming finish in the Grand Prix without risk of fracturing their spectacles...
...route to El Alamein, the Frenchmen sweat and struggle while the German sneers. When they are bogged down in the sand, he refuses to dig. When he begins to unbend and reaches under a seat to offer an injured man a first-aid kit, they clobber him unconscious. Shirtless and wearing German army caps, they join a German troop convoy and narrowly escape disaster when a French P.W. in the convoy recognizes one of the fugitives (France's singing idol, Charles Aznavour) as a countryman. Later, in one fine funny scene, the Frenchmen push...
...Wednesday, Walter cancelled all orders for the kit. He plans to return 140 orders received by Wednesday, and the post office has agreed to return all the rest...
Warned about an "implicit" restriction on using the University's name without its permission. Walter decided to withdraw the offer. He indicated that he had opposed using Harvard's name when the promoters of the kit originally proposed doing...