Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which plastic kitchenware is demonstrated and sold...
...most promising application of germfree research direct to man is in surgery. Despite all precautions, it has been impossible to protect a patient's wound completely against infection, which is still a common fatal complication of surgery. At Notre Dame, Bacteriologist Philip C. Trexler devised a plastic isolator, which has been modified at Walter Reed, and used at the University of Arkansas to deliver pigs...
Swirling Snow. During the 48 hours before the Kennedys arrived, a dozen Paris gun fights left two policemen dead and four Algerians wounded. Gendarmes piled 931 suspect Algerians into paddy wagons and carted them off to jail. Right-wing activists set off six plastic bombs. In Algiers, Police Commissioner Roger Gavoury was stabbed to death in his apartment just eight days after beginning to investigate the European terrorist group called the Secret Armed Organization. At Evian-les-Bains, as snow swirled outside the windows, French and Algerian F.L.N. delegates sat arguing around a wide conference table and seemed...
Fancier Than Scarlett's. To go with the smashable fashions are numerous accessories, the newest and most practical using something called Curon, a thin, transparent, foam-plastic layer that is laminated to wool or worsted jersey as an interlining. Also among space-saving accessories: smashable turbans, many studded with creaseproof beads and fringe; wash-and-wear embroidered lingerie, fancier by far than Scarlett's; Italian nylon drip-dry raincoats, which actually may be more wrinkle than rainproof; tiny, collapsible umbrellas that look like pistols and shoot up almost as quickly...
...swimming-pool furniture, including an Aqua-Lounge ($29.95), constructed of aluminum tubing and saran webbing, an Aqua-Butler ($6.95 for set of two), Aqua-Table ($7.95), and a custom-made Aqua-Bar ($150 to $1,500 each). The Aqua-Butler is a 10-in. by 4-in. rectangle of plastic foam, which accommodates an ash tray and a drinking glass...