Word: mildew
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...official U.S. national museum, faithfully attended by 14.5 million visitors a year, the Smithsonian still avidly collects national memorabilia-General Eisenhower's dress uniform, the Friendship 7 space capsule-but at the venerable age of 118, much of its mildew has been cleaned off. The old fossil is in the midst of a flourishing rejuvenation. In the first step of an ambitious new building program, the Smithsonian's vast Museum of History and Technology last month moved from cramped, cluttered quarters into a $36 million pink Tennessee marble palace that squats with blank-walled solidity on Constitution Avenue...
Chemical companies often call for molds or bacteria to make such things as citric acid for soft drinks. Airplane manufac turers order fungi to test the mildew proofing of their airplanes. Three strains of mutated Staphylococcus aureus, a con tribution from Russia, are used for screen ing anti-cancer drugs...
Boat Cover. A lightweight fiberglass cover for small boats was put on the market by Baltimore's Triangle Mfg. Co. Tailored in sizes for boats 12 ft. to 18 ft. long, the cover will not rip or mildew, weighs only 5 Ibs. in the 18-ft. size. Price: $12.99 (12-footer) to $19.99 (18-footer...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The life of legendary Notre Dame Football Coach Knute Rockne, reconstructed from a cache of film that has been gathering mildew in the university's files for 27 years...
...freeze farm price supports at 1957 levels and 2) the lard-heavy rivers-and-harbors authorization. He soon counted too many Republican noes. "I don't believe in idle gestures," said he, and gracefully helped the farm bill along to an agriculture committee that will probably let it mildew for the rest of the session. The pork-barrel bill went to the Public Works Committee for a word-for-word review that might skim off the lard that Ike rejected...