Word: packs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When George Marshall made the historic offer in 1947 to extend massive U.S. aid to help rebuild the shattered economies of friend and foe alike, the prostrate Soviet-occupied states of Eastern Europe responded with enthusiasm. But before their delegations could pack their scuffed suitcases and head West, Moscow thundered its veto of Commu nist participation in the Marshall Plan. Last week, in Conference Room 1105A of the State Department, a Rumanian delegation was finally able to accept, if not the 17-year-old offer, at least a latterday, more commercial version...
...recent sunny Saturday, Vince Seville, 36, assistant professor of engineering at California's Fresno State College, looked up from the breakfast table and said to his wife: "Mom, pack us a lunch. Rusty here needs an outing to pass his Cub Scout test." An hour or so later Vince, Rusty, 8, Sandy...
...industry is clearly headed for a record production year. Steel's wellbeing, of course, stems chiefly from the buoyant state of the auto industry, whose daily sales so far in May are running 1.5% ahead of last year's near-record rate. Ford is pacing the pack, has sold 20,454 Mustangs in the four weeks since the sports car's introduction. The other automakers also notice that their best-selling models are those that were either all new or sharply restyled for 1964. That gives them good reason to hope that the completely restyled 1965 models...
...recognized the note as a forgery until a bout 4 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, nearly two days later, just as the thief was maneuvering into position at Memorial Church. But this time he had only time to pack 49 pipes into a briefcase before a student organist came in to practice...
...that darkens rapidly when exposed to ultraviolet light. The resulting picture has no "grain." Images of Bible pages projected in ultraviolet were reduced by lenses and focused one by one on the dye. After each exposure the film was moved mechanically to array the tiny pages in close-packed rows. This miracle of miniaturization, which makes the traditional Lord's Prayer engraved on a pinhead seem downright brobdingnagian, can cram 1,000,000 book pages on a stack of 3-in. by 5-in. index cards about 4 in. high. It could pack all the books in the Library...