Word: paraphernalia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...astronauts have been instructed to keep their color camera aimed at least 45° away from the solar disk. The Apollo 13 camera also is equipped with a lens cap and has a backup: a spare black-and-white model inside the cabin. Other improvements in their paraphernalia: antiglare visors, 8-oz. water pouches inside their suits ("Nice for wetting the whistle," Haise explains), backpacks to haul lunar samples (instead of the fancy Teflon bags that hooked to their sides) and even a nylon whisk broom to brush off the clinging lunar dust...
...Government, in fact, is an important customer for private security service and paraphernalia. The Justice Department is paying for a survey of security needs and the installation of experimental intrusion-alarm systems in one city. It granted $84,700 to the Cedar Rapids police, who bought an alarm system from the Wells Fargo Alarm Services Division of Baker Industries. The company has put 350 intrusion alarms into gas stations, taverns, warehouses, stores and small factories. The alarms are tripped by various means-metallic foil on windows, ultrasonic waves, photoelectric beams-and connected by telephone wire to a central panel...
...serene than Mexico's Oaxaca state, astride the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Foreign visitors are few, and they are usually young Americans interested in eating local "magic" mushrooms. Yet for the past few weeks, Oaxaca (pronounced wa-hac-a) has been bustling with unnatural activity. Toting tons of expensive paraphernalia, nearly 800 scientists from 14 countries have descended on the mountainous state. Frightened by the "demon" that the scientists have come to see, superstitious Indian villagers have been busily offering prayers, lighting candles and staging other rituals. Their supplications are designed to keep the demon at a distance. But they...
...Peter had very short hair and insisted on getting married in a big church ceremony. I didn't understand his life and he didn't understand my friends." Peter admits, "I was trying to grab all the straight paraphernalia ? the country club, have a silver pattern register at Tiffany's." His new wife, Susan, was the stepdaughter of Noah Dietrich, an ex-assistant of Howard Hughes. His best man was a young millionaire named Eugene ("Stormy") McDonald...
WEST GERMANY Riding the Sexwelle The phenomenon that West Germans call the Sexwelle (sex wave) threatens to reach tidal proportions. Advertisements feature undressed girls, sex boutiques in several cities offer an endless variety of erotic paraphernalia, and coyly clinical ''sex education" films pack moviehouses. In Hamburg's seamy, mile-square St. Pauli district, whose fleshpots draw 300,000 visitors a month, businessmen who are shy about being spotted on the notorious Reeperbahn can swing into an underground garage, park, choose a fraülein at a discreet Kontakthof (contact court), then take an elevator...