Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failed to fasten their seat belts were battered against the bulkhead. Among the most seriously injured: Italian Movie Producer Carlo Ponti, 48, husband-in-fact (if not by law) of Cinemactress Sophia Loren, 28, whose badly cut right ear required 14 emergency stitches and 45 extra ones in plastic surgery. "Frightening," said Ponti, his head turbaned in bandages. "Luckily, Sophia wasn't on board...
...Speed can digest 500 Ibs. of confidential letters, microfilm, ledger sheets, contracts, blueprints in an hour, is not upset by stray paper clips or staples. It can handle sheets as wide as a newspaper, produces shreds in three widths-depending on the model-which it neatly spews into disposable plastic bags. For businesses where disposal of confidential or secret material is essential, Destroyit does the job on the spot. Price...
House Democratic Whip Hale Boggs was fishing in the Gulf of Mexico when an Air Force plane flew over his boat and dropped into the water a plastic bottle attached to a red flag. The message in the bottle told Boggs to phone the White House. His boat pulled over to a nearby offshore oil rig. The Congressman donned a life jacket, swung by rope to a spindly ladder, and climbed 150 feet to the rig's platform, where a helicopter was awaiting him. At an airbase on the mainland, they crammed Boggs into a flight suit, strapped...
Through the use of the new plastic bursar's cards, Harvard students for the first time will be able to check reserve books out of the Radcliffe library over night. The new cards, which have been issued to both Harvard and Radcliffe students, now serve as library cards in Lamont, Widener, and the Radcliffe library...
Staying small is the idea at Groton, which is far less snobbish than people think. Episcopal Groton, which schooled F.D.R., has 34 teachers for 229 boys (including three Negroes). Seniors supervise younger boys. All sleep in dormitory cubicles, wash in plastic (once tin) basins, the legacy of Founder Endicott Peabody's muscular Christianity. "The important thing is not training a boy's brain," says Groton's headmaster, the Rev. John Crocker. "It's having a decent guy when you're done...