Word: limitlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...potential for paper seems almost limitless. West Coast Designer Judith Brewer claims that her Kaycel clothes (specially coated to retain fire resistance) can be washed and ironed as many as 20 times, looks forward to knit and stretch paper for stockings, lingerie and ski pants. Mars Manufacturing is already testing paper golf slacks and underwear, sees the greatest promise in industrial clothing such as lab coats and coveralls. Inman Cook, who is preparing to open a store called Paperworks in Manhattan, thinks home furnishings are the likeliest area, plans to offer paper curtains, drapes and sheets. Sterling Paper believes...
...convoluted pipelines of foundations used to distribute CIA dollars seemed to be almost as limitless as the curiosity of the newsmen willing to plow through public-record tax files. Recipients of CIA-suspect largesse made an encyclopedic grab bag of organizations ranging from the now defunct Institute of International Labor Research Inc. (headed by Old Socialist Norman Thomas) to the Billy Graham Spanish-American crusade, from the North American Secretariat of Pax Romana and the John Hay Whitney Trust for Charitable Purposes to the International Food and Drink Workers Federation and the Friends of India Committee...
...construction sites or sell them at below market-level costs; they could even construct non-university housing themselves and donate it or sell it cheaply to Cambridge afterwards, just as Harvard is doing with the Cambridge St. underpass. Variations on these suggestions for direct action by the schools are limitless, and there are other options. It is up to Harvard and M.I.T. to choose one or more which will accomplish the most as quickly as possible...
...conditions are not changed, noted Katzenbach, the potential for new violence is almost limitless. "I don't know of a city that is not facing a serious problem today," he said. "There are 30 to 40 cities with the same frustrations, the same tensions that need only some unpredictable event to set them off." He dismissed the idea that left-wing agitators are responsible for the riots but conceded that they lose no time in joining them. The riots "were indeed fomented by agitators," said the Attorney General, "agitators named disease and despair, joblessness and hopelessness, rat-infested housing...
Regardless of what the drug's effects on memory may prove to be, says Dr. Cameron, it "opens the way to an almost limitless exploration of new methods of modifying this extraordinary system whereby we can bring forward continually the experiences of the past to modify present actions and future plans." Beyond that, he foresees the possibility of a wholly new system of medicine, based not on conventional drugs and surgery but on the RNA-mediated "memory" inside every one of the body's trillions of cells...