Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...send me $10." She asks, "Why shouldn't there be as much sympathy for me as the President's family? After all, my son was murdered." Mrs. Oswald frequently visits her son's grave in Fort Worth's Rose Hill Cemetery, sometimes lays bouquets of plastic flowers at the headstone. Fort Worth police still maintain an all-night guard at the gravesite to prevent vandalism...
Cautiously an Israeli patrol advanced along the narrow gravel road, sweeping for mines. Immediately to its left were the bubbling springs that form the headwaters of the River Dan. A few feet to its right, a white plastic ribbon marked the Syrian border. From the grey stone hills beyond, two shots rang out, and suddenly the whole area erupted into battle. Syrian mortar shells fell on three Israeli villages; Israeli jets bombed two Syrian settlements. Altogether, 10 people were killed and 37 wounded...
...Pont to look with new interest on the consumer field, to which it now sells only 5% of its products directly. The company is speeding up development of consumer products, such as its recently introduced electric toothbrush, and would like to expand into the homebuilding field with plastic piping and other products. But Du Font's strength for the foreseeable future will continue to be as a wholesaler to U.S. industries of the secrets it unlocks in the laboratory...
...Received its first eight patents on a new photographic process that produces positive images on film without a negative-an innovation potentially as important as the Polaroid process -and announced plans to introduce a Du Pont color film for home movies. > Brought out an unusually versatile plastic, Surlyn, which scientists can make either hard or soft, transparent or opaque, thick or thin simply by jiggering its ion content; it will be used in such varied products as packaging film, pipes, costume jewelry. >Embarked on an expansion project to enlarge its eight big textile plants and to launch a full-scale...
...four to six hours, while the lawyer can doze or read briefs, the blood from his forearm artery flows through the plastic coils in the bath. Metabolic poisons that should have been excreted in his urine have accumulated in his blood. (Uremia patients urinate, but pass only a small volume of weak, watery liquid.) In the artificial kidney, the poisons are leached out of the blood through the walls of the cellophane tubing and into the chemical bath...