Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...docking at the southern ports of Madras and Visakhapatnam. Half a dozen refugee flights from Rangoon are already arriving at Calcutta's Dum Dum airport each day, and the waiting rooms are piled high with the pitiful possessions of the uprooted-lumpy bundles of bedding, cheap suitcases, bright plastic pails stuffed with children's toys and kitchen utensils...
...With a plastic rose in her teeth, she is suddenly Carmen, doing the Habanera as an English patter song, clicking castanets. "I have to get these adjusted," she says of the castanets. "One is male and the other female. To me, they look much alike, but perhaps you are more discerning than...
Married. Veronica ("Rocky") Balfe Cooper, 51, blonde and still beautiful socialite widow of Hollywood's Gary Cooper; and Dr. John Marquis Converse, 51, Manhattan plastic surgeon, whom she met when she moved back East after Coop's death in 1961; both for the second time; in a civil ceremony in Westport, Conn...
Nicely acted and broadly directed, with colorful costumes and plastic cowslips that stood upright on their stems when tossed to the stage, the performance was full of life, and it found an audience. Almost no one walked away. One young boy who did leave had nothing against Shakespeare. "Man, it's getting dark," he said, "and you can get killed in this park...
...visitors aboard and transacted $1,125,000 worth of business right on deck. Australia's enterprising businessmen miss few opportunities to mold their exports to their customers' specific habits and needs: in a wily and woolly coup in Thailand, they recently landed a large order for plastic sneakers by producing them in a shade of orange that matched the robes worn by the country's innumerable Buddhist monks...