Word: kit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yale "instant survival" kit will consist of biscuits similar to graham crackers, and of water, sanitation, medical, and radiological monitoring supplies...
...likely to have a skeleton text, a book of suggested activities, a visual-aid kit, and the advice of a child psychologist...
...Philip Graham, 47, stole Columnist Walter Lippmann from the New York Herald Tribune syndicate last month, Graham hinted broadly that more raids might follow. His newest columnar prize is Joe Alsop, another old hand of the Tribune syndicate, whose byline will join Lippmann's in Graham's kit bag. Any more columnists to come? "Well." said Graham. "I could have had another big one, but I didn't want to seem greedy...
Modern hotels claim luxury with a color telephone in the bathroom and an electric shoeshine kit in the closet; old-style elegance is today as vestigial as the ear lobe. Among the brass, glass and steel chains that proliferate across the country, the few fine old hotels left shine like solid gold pieces. The best of the remaining best is a sprawl of pink and green stucco called the Beverly Hills Hotel, which last week turned 50 years old with style...
Accra was in a state of emergency. Thousands of steel-helmeted soldiers in full battle kit ringed the city while rifle-toting security cops raced from house to house in search of arms and explosives. By day, reconnoitering army helicopters whirred at treetop level. At night, the city was stilled by a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Censorship was clamped on outgoing dispatches. So grave was the situation that a long-scheduled visit by India's Prime Minister Nehru was called off for the humiliating reason that Ghanaian police could not guarantee his safety...