Word: kits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bangkok. And by staying home, he will not raise hopes and expectations that a speedy resolution to the SEATO division is possible. In the months to come, there will be other such crises and similar cries for him and Kennedy to bring salvation in a travelling kit. If the Kennedy administration really means to lay things on the line to the people, then it had better not start by re-introducing personal diplomacy...
...selling strong, some past Christmas favorites are lading The junior cowboy is riding off into the sunset. With the exception of ideal's hot-selling Astro Base, which simulates a landing on the moon, space-age toys are far out. Not science fiction but science do-it-yourself kits, which may baffle father but delight junior, are now the big sellers. Science Kit Maker A. C. Gilbert says that do-it-yourself kits have jumped from ⅓ to ⅔ of Gilbert's total sales, with sales of astronomy kits alone up 25% over sales last year. Even babies...
...novels devoted to this notion, the unimpeachable moral that a man may lose his soul while making money proved reasonably arresting, but by now, the theme has become an overpowering bore and need no longer be written; it can be assembled from the fictioneer's cliché kit. The recurrence of the theme may prove, as some claim, a deep uneasiness in American materialist society; or it may merely prove the uneasiness (or an eye on an easy market) among American writers. The latest, 604-page redundancy by Sloan (The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit) Wilson may also...
Controlled Chance. The Concerto consisted of three movements, actually written down for the orchestra by different members of the ensemble and "edited" by Foss. The music was rather faceless-tricked out with a full Modern Composer's Kit of dissonances, rhythmic angularities, splashy climaxes. Against this background, Foss and the ensemble worked out their improvisations. It was in the Intermezzo, when the orchestra was silent, that Foss's technique of "controlled chance" came into fullest play. The Foss ensemble was free to improvise -and it did, with some highly interesting results. The instruments traded themes, stitched their...
...child psychologist named Wallace Zuckermann turns out the U.S.'s only mass-produced harpsichord, an instrument that sells briskly for $750, but is derided by professionals. Last spring, Zuckermann went a step further: for a mere $150, his clients can now buy the Zuckermann Do-It-Yourself Harpsichord Kit, complete with diagrams, strings, jacks and Ivaloid plastic keys...