Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ello," quoth the Beetle. "This is John, speaking with is voice." You could have fooled the 155 Beatle fan clubs in the U.S., but their 20,000 members faithfully wore out the "little bit o' plastic" record that the Beatles sent their fans free for Christmas. Meanwhile, back in London's Odeon Theater, the furry foursome made their first onstage scene since Ringo had his tonsils clipped. Surprise again. This time the mops were all covered up with Eskimo gear. But everybody knew who they were the minute they cranked up to shoot down Rudolph, the Red-Nosed...
Each year hundreds of U.S. children are brutally assaulted and even killed by their own parents. In 1962 alone, the American Humane Association found 662 newspaper reports of parents who beat, burned, drowned, stabbed and suffocated their children with weapons ranging from baseball bats to plastic bags. Most of the victims were under four; one-quarter died. If all such cases were reported, say some experts, the total would reach 10,000 a year. Many doctors suspect that more U.S. children are killed by their parents than by auto accidents, leukemia or muscular dystrophy. But the problem is more than...
...replace relatively insensitive tissues and those that are easy to get at, plastic surgeons have a wide choice of materials. They carve Silastic sponge to the shape of a human ear and cover it with skin grafts. For men who have undergone castration because of cancer, there are artificial testicles of the same or a similar material. Artificial breasts are now made of a soft silicone-rubber sack that holds a silicone gel, and they have a backing of Dacron for attachment to the chest wall...
...parts of the anatomy for which the inventive human brain foresees no possibility of a plastic replacement is the brain itself...
...Chat. The fire started near the second-floor escalator around 3 a.m. on the Saturday that Marcus had expected to be "the biggest day of the Christmas shopping season," roared up the stairwell to gut the fourth and fifth floors. In some sections of the store untouched by flames, plastic hangers melted in the intense heat, dropping expensive clothing into dirty, swirling water. More than 150 firemen fought for five hours to control the fire, the costliest in Dallas history...