Word: pack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spent six years checking out the hottest planes aloft as a General Electric test pilot when he became an astronaut in 1962. Bassett, an outgoing Air Force major who was to have taken a 60-minute walk in space during the flight toting an instrument-crammed, 166-lb. pack on his back, served as a fighter pilot in Korea and a test pilot at California's Edwards Air Force Base before joining the space program...
...business by chance. Curious in 1950 about the valu able samples a friend received through the mail, Harris wrote to 100 companies for free samples. He got back 82, including a twelve-can carton of tooth powder and a soda-fountain dispenser of headache powder. Harris conceived a toiletries pack, sold the idea to hotels as a convenience for guests. He eventually signed up 4,000 hotels, sold more to banks looking for new-account come-ons, others to airlines (which give the packs to grounded passengers). The Guest Pac Corp. also sells packs to the Salvation Army...
They use Campus-Pacs as traffic builders. To receive a supply, college stores must advertise the packs in campus newspapers, also stock regular sizes of the samples. After the packs are introduced, surveys inevitably show a rise in student preferences for the sampled products. Harris' potential clientele will continue to grow, reach 7,000,000 students by 1970. And every year there is a completely new freshman class that can be tempted to use the products in the pack...
...workers coming out of a nearby cigar store handed an SDS pamphleteer a pack of matches and told him, "There's a can of gasoline over by that truck...
These three figures are set off, as Babe sees it, by a chorus of old people--teachers, parents' a priest--who carp at the children's behavior and eventually drive two of them to death and the other close to it. There is also a pack of boys, and three other young girls--about twenty parts, in short, in any of which a bad performance can spoil a scene. Some fine actors have taken on these roles--Emily Levine as Mrs. Gabor, in particular, Mark Ritts as Johnny Rilow, Susan Channing as Ilse, and Patricia Hawkins, who creates a character...