Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hijacker boarded the Los Angeles-to-New York airliner with an automatic pistol concealed inside a fake plaster arm cast. Once he had seized control in the cockpit, he started making a wild series of demands over the radiotelephone. He wanted to talk to President Nixon; he wanted the release of Angela Davis; he wanted a ransom payment of exactly $306,800. Eight hours after the hijacker struck, two FBI agents disguised as crew members boarded the plane at John F. Kennedy Airport, shot the hijacker in the hand and captured...
...built by the Russians. Détente or no, Washington wanted no repetition of its experience with the present nine-story chancellery on Moscow's Tchaikovsky Street. The local talent that "remodeled" the building for its new U.S. tenants in 1953 buried 40 electronic listening devices in the plaster walls. They remained undetected for twelve years...
...everyone is dying of indifference and analysis. Which is more unoriginal, the critique of its technique, is moot. The amazing thing is that Lessing takes herself seriously. The language of "Report" may be pseudo-scientific, but mock-serious it is not. Lessing slaps on truism after truism with the plaster knife of all her wellworn and well meaning liberal convictions. Once again the saving grace of humor is absent where it is most needed...
Most of the Hotel Continental money went for plumbing and plaster. The Science Center's Central Refrigeration Plant is "just a very large air-conditioning system," Lafayette L. Bingham, utility man at the Science Center, said yesterday...
...sign of the general air of affluence: Neiman-Marcus, avid to appear as the champion of the most conspicuous consumption imaginable, includes in its Christmas catalogue an offering extraordinary even by its standards. It will sell plaster dummies priced at $3,000 each, with a limit of two to a customer; the buyer must lie down for half an hour while a complete plaster mold is made of his face and body, and store men record him laughing and saying yes (or crying and saying no) on a tape that is inserted into the dummy. What consumers can do with...