Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frail that it can hold its shape only at weightless, airless altitudes, that wide wing is the working element of a satellite, built by Fairchild Hiller Corp., for detecting micrometeoroids. Pegasus' 208 rectangular panels are covered on both sides with thin sheets of copper and aluminum separated by plastic. The metal sheets are electrically charged, but normally no current flows between them. When a micrometeoroid penetrates the aluminum, it will punch a hole in the plastic and fill the hole with metal vapor that is a good conductor of electricity. Although the gas will dissipate quickly, there will...
...same time, the fast growth of retail trade, notably in the $3.5 billion-a-year vending machine industry, has brought an unprecedented demand for coins. U.S. mints have tripled their output since 1962, but they cannot meet demand. Everybody feels the pinch: Las Vegas gambling operators have reluctantly substituted plastic chips for shining stacks of silver dollars; bankers in several cities swap dollar bills for 980 in coins, and the Federal Reserve reported last week that retailers are buying coins from big-time hoarders at black-market prices...
...test-marketing an 007 line of men's toiletries "that make any man dangerous." In May, Revere Knitting Mills will bring out knit shirts with the numerals 007 embroidered on them. Spatz Bros, of New York is making a new 007 trench-coat with secret pockets, throws a plastic Beretta into the bargain. Weldon Manufacturing is planning his and hers pajamas with secret pockets, and Harry Diamond Corp. is making 007 swimsuits and sports shirts. Angostura Bitters has begun pushing an 007 drink-gin or vodka with lemon juice, sugar, soda and two dashes of bitters-served, naturally...
...Viet Cong struck directly at U.S. personnel, and twice they got away with it. Two days before the U.S. presidential election, guerrillas killed five Americans, wounded 76, and destroyed six B57 bombers with a savage mortar barrage against South Viet Nam's Bienhoa Airfield. Last Christmas Eve, a plastic charge demolished Saigon's Brink Hotel, a big officers' billet, killing two Americans and wounding 98 others. Both times U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor pleaded for a retaliatory strike at the North. Both times he was turned down...
...year-old student from Scotland, Stuart Christie, was sentenced earlier this month to 20 years in jail by a military court in Spain for "terrorist activities" against the regime of Francisco Franco. The student, a self-proclaimed anarchist, was arrested while hitchhiking to Madrid with a knapsack full of plastic explosives. Christie's mother watched the trial, commented laconically: "I don't think it would be taken so seriously back home ... he is very young...