Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amid the maze of machines, the bulkheads covered with cheery green plastic, the shiny steel fittings and the delicate equipment that demands constant attention, there is a private world that turns on four-hour duty watches and countless battle-station drills. It all goes on in the 410-ft. Ethan Allen's six watertight compartments, on four levels and three decks...
...Wednesday, with Rio's streets almost deserted except for strings of colored lights, colored plastic pillars and a few exhausted stragglers, the highly vital statistics told only part of the story. Ambulance calls: 1,827. Street fights: 90. Arrests: 422. Complexes eased and frustrations forgotten: Quern sabe? What the statistics did not show was the thousands of times the police simply looked the other way, following an unwritten law governing the free spirits of carnival. "Americans have money," rasped one exhausted tourist when it was all over, "but Brazilians have soul...
...bikinis, the Ski Hut is definitely the place to go; already some bikinis as well as conventional suits, are in stock. One big hit is going to be the bikini in black vinyl ($17), fortunately sold with a short black vinyl coat ($21). Vinyl is a new plastic-like fabric which looks wet even without ever getting near the water...
...chemistry at Medfield College. One day he blows up his lab and in the debris discovers flubber-the word means flying rubber, and the substance it describes repeals the law of gravity. In Son of Flubber he turns flubber slubber into flubbergas and shoots it through Big Flubbertha (a plastic howitzer that looks as if it cost at least 39,000 bubble-gum wrappers) at a passing cloud. He wants to make rain but he only breaks windows-20,000 windows...
...skating rinks, bowling alleys and on ski slopes made of plastic, Japanese will soon be able to play at one of Japan's most modern resorts, the San-ai Hotel on Hokkaido Island, just an hour's plane ride from Tokyo. Work on the resort began last week when slim and tireless Kiyoshi Ichimura, 62, got permission from his backers to go ahead with the ambitious project. Already one of Japan's fastest rising businessmen, whose nine companies sold $61 million worth of goods last year, Ichimura believes that "to stand still is to lose ground...