Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President authorizing the General Services Administration to sell 2,000,000 Ibs. of goosefeathers and down (used in sleeping bags, flight jackets, survival suits), which it has been hoarding since 1947 (along with iodine, opium, castor oil, sperm oil, diamonds, sapphires, rubies, instruments, missiles, aluminum, tin, zinc, lead, nickel, bismuth and platinum). When Delaware's Senator John Williams asked how many feathers the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization had collected, he was told that the information was classified...
...Manager Casey Stengel, Broadway Producer David Merrick, the "young widow." the "new" Japan. Only the touted "Revolution by Design" is clearly different. Twenty-two different type sizes and faces greet the reader from the table of contents page. Photos are sometimes surprisingly abstract. Despite the new look (and a nickel price rise to 20?), pledges the Post, it will be the same "well-known, well-loved voice...
...shorts wiggled comfortably into prone position on the tarp, and consulted a makeshift wind gauge built of a bent coat hanger, a spent cartridge shell and a bit of nylon hose. Then, tucking the butt of a .22-cal. Winchester Special into her right shoulder, she began perforating the nickel-sized bull's-eye in the target 50 yds. off. With all this to watch, her male competitors in last week's National Smallbore Rifle Championships could scarcely keep their minds on the range. "Not only can Lenore Jensen outshoot me," said...
...crave. The trio specializes in old standards (Heartaches, And the Angels Sing), and as an extra fail-safe against boredom, Frankie Ross often makes joking commentaries on the lyrics. His gags may not be immortal but usually get a laugh from someone who has just put his 459th consecutive nickel into a slot and is ready for anything. Ross also does a take-off on Baby, It's Cold Outside, turning himself into a jivey simulacrum of a Chicago mobster. In a rococo version of Ebbtide, the whole group does everything from bird calls to an imitation...
...education as for defense. Corruption, which is a tradition in Asia, is at a conventionalized minimum. "This place is amazing for Southeast Asia," said a U.S. diplomat. "The government reaches down to the village level." Added a U.S. aid official: "We can trace every expenditure down to the last nickel...