Word: kit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letters advertising the kit arrived at the homes of every Harvard student. For $8-89, parents were offered a moment of relief for their children during exams...
Once its target is located, a Skyhook rescue plane sends a 400-lb., do-it-yourself kit drifting downward by parachute. The bulky package, which is buoyant enough to float if it lands on water, contains a cylinder filled with helium and 500 ft. of woven nylon line with a special suit attached to one end, a balloon to the other. The man to be rescued must be in good enough physical shape to do a few simple things: put on the suit and inflate the balloon with helium. Once the big bag rises to the full length...
...group of leading Boston-area educators have devised a $4.75 College Finding Service Kit that uses computers to narrow a student's possible choices...
...kit, developed by the nonprofit Educational Research Corporation of Cambridge, relies on the programmed profiles of 2,850 schools that are stored in IBM machines. A-student marks his preferences (location, size, competitive standing, desired subjects) on a four-page booklet; the information is fed into the computer and out clatter the printed names of schools that match his demands. Average "print-out": between 20 and 30 colleges...
...plot, which has all the bite of the blueprint in a model car kit, tells how a car-crazy boy (Darren) and a boy-crazy girl (Tiffin) find happiness at the end of an auto endurance race through Death Valley. As the dragster's inamorata, Pamela learns that falling in love with an "intuitive genius" can be an endurance test in itself. Darren spends so much time pondering gear ratios and reassembling fuel lines that he can scarcely stay awake long enough to endanger a girl's reputation. Of course, he regains consciousness moments before the Big Race...