Word: leathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passengers for Trans World Airlines' flight 841 lined up to board their jet in Athens last week, an alert supervisor named Frixos Servetopoulos noticed that two men and a woman were carrying identical brown leather satchels. Feigning routine interest, Servetopoulos inspected one bag, then scurried to call the police. In short order, the three passengers were arrested. Inside their luggage was found an arsenal of pistols, hand grenades and bombs. The three were also carrying mimeographed statements announcing that the airliner was being skyjacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (P.F.L.P...
...friend happened to be Charles Eames, the multitalented industrial designer whose molded plywood and leather "Eames chair" is a furniture classic. Busy on a host of other projects-films, graphics, toys and the IBM Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, to name a few-Eames took twelve years to satisfy Wilder's need, while Billy had to make do with a chair and ottoman. But the result, called simply "the Chaise" by its designer, was worth the wait. It is a long, curiously narrow (only 17½ in. wide), aluminum and leather chair, shaped beyond...
...really promising product, an oral flu-preventive pill called Symmetrel, has been a commercial flop since it was introduced in 1967. Reason: Du Pont lacked both expertise and a sales force for drug marketing, and one result was that doctors generally did not prescribe it. Corfam, the first synthetic leather to "breathe," cost $60 million to get into production in 1964, but quick and stiff competition has made it only barely profitable. Du Pont is now improving the versatility of Corfam-in order to expand its big market from shoes to luggage and apparel-and trying to reduce its production...