Word: packs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russell Baker, "are those who have been to a hanging." "We gather," NBC's David Brinkley told his network audience, "that the Democratic leadership does not want reported what is happening." CBS's Walter Cronkite concluded one night by complaining: "It makes us want to pack up our cameras and typewriters and go home...
...Scrooge, David Copperfield and Oliver Twist. It recently staged an extravaganza for college-age youths, featuring computers that analyzed their handwriting, phrenologists who measured their skulls, fortunetellers who gazed into their futures and rah-rah cheerleaders who simply looked attractive. There were also karate lessons, instructions on how to pack a suitcase and the sounds of 15 rock bands. The affair drew 12,000 young people, one of whom made off with the door prize of a live horse...
...Boieny: "Tribalism is the scourge of Africa." Unless tribalism goes, adds Kenya's Minister of Economic Planning Tom Mboya, "much of what we have achieved could be lost overnight." Yet no African leader would stamp out tribalism overnight, even if he could. For safety's sake, the leaders themselves pack their governments with fellow tribesmen. Houphouet-Boigny keeps Baule kinsmen in key posts. In his heyday, Ghana's deposed Kwame Nkrumah heavily favored aides from his Nzima tribe. Mboya, for all his brilliance, may never reach top power in Kenya because he belongs not to the dominant Kikuyu...
...Aerobee arced above the atmosphere, which screens X rays from the earth, a camera focused on the image of the 9-in. telescope began shooting pictures. The film pack, dropped back to earth by parachute, contained a dozen of the most detailed X-ray photographs ever taken of the sun. The prints showed the X-ray structure of a flare at the sun's center. Other X-ray-emitting solar regions came through as bright splotches on an otherwise dark disk...
Where can the man who likes to travel light find a vacation house that he can pack into two suitcases and inflate with a bicycle pump after he arrives at a congenial resort? See MODERN LIVING, Preparing for the Year...