Word: litters
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...pick of Rat's litter is Corporal King, a cunning G.I. thimblerigger whose genius for survival turns Changi into a thieves' market. Get yours, reasons the King, and despite rigid camp rules against trading, he gets his: watches, rings, or the shirt off another prisoner's back-anything he can buy low and sell high through corrupt Japanese guards who have connections in Singapore's black market. While senior officers mope around in rags, King wears spruce khaki laundered by hired flunkies. Those who serve him may hate him, but they seldom die of malnutrition...
...anyone doubted that Lady Bird Johnson was in dead earnest about her beautification program, he had only to watch her pace. Having presided over three White House conferences on the subject, toured the District of Columbia to plant flowers, participated in an anti-litter campaign called Potomac Pickup Day and made two trips outside of Washington-all since February-she might have taken a breather from beauty for a while. Not Lady Bird. She not only visited two more cities last week-planting trees, condemning litter and extolling beauty-but plans to talk beauty to a meeting of the Associated...
...hawthorn trees to be planted in District of Columbia parks, helped to dedicate a new three-domed horticultural conservatory, planted a chestnut seedling in a park. Aware that she was in the city that beer helped make famous, she tactfully omitted mentioning discarded beer cans when she called litter "one of the greatest detractors of beauty," then praised the beer industry for urging customers to "stow away, don't throw them away...
...foreseeable future, the battles will increase, the crisis will become even less quiet. Litter must go somewhere. Highway businesses will expand. Cars and washing machines wear out but will not disintegrate. Pulp, paper and wood so far come only from trees. And an expanding population must have more power and more factories and more homes to live...
...electrical engineer and Mariner IV project director, had to make the final decisions on any hair-raising problems during the Mars encounter. He has worked on the Corporal and Jupiter missiles, was systems manager of the Mariner II Venus probe. His ideal: "To remain a virgin in outlook, not litter my mind with dogma...