Word: peeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...space fever renews itself before daylight each morning, when long necklaces of auto headlights form along the highways that lead to Cape Canaveral's heavily guarded gates. Security guards check for pink windshield stickers, examine badges, wave the privileged on to their work. Construction workers peel off toward half-finished launching facilities. Others spike off to hangars, laboratories, snack wagons and a hundred separate sites. At the lox plant, they run the machinery that daily chews up a chunk of damp Florida air and transforms it into 75 tons of liquid oxygen...
...greying, handsome man, a novelist by trade, sat in a New Jersey inn, talking amiably with two companions and sipping his favorite drink, an ice-cold, bone-dry martini with lemon peel. An animated party of four came in and sat down at the next table. The handsome man shifted uneasily. Beads of sweat pebbled his forehead as he stole a shy half-glance at the strangers. Abruptly, like a swimmer surfacing for a gasp of air, he got up, grabbed his drink and pivoted toward an untenanted dining area in the rear, taking his tablemates in tow with...
Minute Postcards. Owners of Polaroid Land Cameras, which produce snapshots in one minute, can now turn the pictures into postcards by affixing them to Polaroid Postcarders. One side of a Postcarder has standard message and address sections, the other has a peel-off backing over an adhesive surface. Cost for a package...
...Native Art Form." The little jingle is now bigtime. Admen long ago realized that not since Young crossed the Rubicam has advertising found a more hypnotic pitch. In the 18 years since Pepsi-Cola hit the spot with a jazzy version of the English ballad John Peel, the singing commercial has become as entrenched in U.S. culture as the madrigal in the Italian Renaissance. Says Scott: "There's a definite challenge to writing jingles. To me, they've become as much a part of the American scene as any native art form." Says Columbia Records' spade-bearded...
...night Riggan was relaxing in his apartment on Peel Street, in a gracious midtown sector of the city, after a hard week's work on a story about an eruption of shootings and gangster violence in Montreal's east-end tenderloin district; the Canadian edition of TIME carrying Riggan's story had appeared on the newsstands only the day before. Riggan's doorbell rang, and when he opened the door, two rough-looking strangers pushed their way in. "Did you do that article on the East End?" one asked. When Riggan replied that...