Word: minks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fall is the time for fur, as everyone knows, and fur means mink. Or does...
Working with natural essences or synthetic replacements, industrial perfumers have also solved the problem of charcoal briquettes that don't smell like hickory and finished furs that don't smell like mink. Without help, shoes nowadays smell more like adhesives, rubber soles and dye than leather; many manufacturers have taken to deodorizing footwear, then spraying on a compound that smells the way shoes are supposed to smell...
...John Hansen is the oldest at 63. Wisconsin's John Race is a machinist and New York's James Hanley is a mortician. California's John V. Tunney, son of the ex-heavyweight boxing champion, is a muscular 205-pounder; and Hawaii's Patsy Mink, the prettiest of the lot, is a petite 5 ft. 1. But they have one thing in common: all are in President Johnson's political debt. Explains Indiana's Lee Hamilton: "The President's election and immense popularity helped me get elected. In a sense...
...fungi; so are the yeasts that leaven bread and ferment grapes, grains, berries, cacti, honey and camel's milk into alcohol. Yeasts keep industry in ferment as well, assist in the manufacture of paint remover, antifreeze, synthetic rubber, adhesives, cosmetics and perfume. Yeast-feeding produces better pelts in mink, more honey from bees, faster growth in trout...
Felicia Lamport lives in Cambridge. She has published Scrap Irony, a volume of light verse, and Mink on Weekdays, an account of her childhood in New York. Some of the pieces below have appeared in Harper's and McCall's, and will be included in another book of verse to be published soon by Houghton-Mifflin...