Word: nylons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficult enough to tell who wears the pants in the family, something new has come along to add to the confusion: panty hose for men. Stretch-nylon Mani-Hose, designed to be worn as underwear, are catching on across the U.S. Ribbed from the calf down and equipped with a fly front, they come in several colors but in only one size-30-40 waist and 12-13 foot. After being bought initially by only the most daring, they have now become popular (at $6.50 per pair) with thousands of policemen, mailmen, skiers and other outdoor types...
...stimulated equal amounts of Establishment enterprise. Pinkerton's, the venerable private constabulary that hunted down Butch Cassidy and was McClellan's private OSS in the Civil War, is marketing 'the new Pinkerton Bomb Blanket, a four-by-four 18-layer core of high-tensile ballistic nylon covered by fire-retardant Herculite to smother incendiary bombs...
...Surgeons make an incision behind the recipient's ear and cut away any diseased or damaged portions of the hearing organs before replacing them with the donor tissue.,If only the donor's eardrum is used, it is fastened to the patient's ossicles with a nylon sling. If the donor's ossicles are used as well, they are connected to the patient's remaining ear bones so that sound vibrations can be conducted unimpeded to the inner...
...times have almost caught up with Gould. A California firm has just marketed the Stun Gun, which shoots a compressed four-inch-square nylon bag filled with either lead powder or birdshot. Fired from modified carbines, pistols or even nightsticks, the bag unfolds like a spinning pancake when it leaves the weapon's muzzle at 110 m.p.h. It will knock down-or at least stun -a fleeing suspect or a rioter. But, claims the manufacturer, the impact is not fatal. A Chicago police official disagrees: "Anything is lethal if it's fired at close enough range...
...planning to buy one ($14 for the A-shaped tunic, $8 for the pants). Some older nurses feel that the pantsuits look "unprofessional." But even they admit that because of all the leaning, reaching and stooping required of nurses, the style is more sensible than the traditional skirt and nylon stockings. A Cook County Hospital official agrees: "Given the present length of skirts," he says, "the pantsuits are more functional...