Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plastic Applause. By day. Algiers appears as peaceful as any city of France, reported TIME Correspondent Edward Behr. After sunset, the streets resound to the powerful explosion of plastic bombs. Some nights there may be only three or four; once last week there were 19. When European audiences in movie houses hear the muffled roar of a distant bomb, they break into applause. The victims of the explosions are Moslem shopkeepers. Frenchmen who are considered to be liberals or Gaullists. or policemen who appear to be searching too hard for European terrorists...
...Algerian seaport of Bōne, F.L.N. terrorists tossed a grenade into a hotel, killing a guest, and in revenge a European mob surged through the streets and lynched the first two Moslems it encountered. In Oran. Sidi-bel-Abbés and Constantine, European counterterrorists exploded plastic bombs. At the U.N., the Afro-Asian nations lined up 46 of the 50 nations needed to call a special session of the U.N. General Assembly to discuss Tunisia's charge of French aggression at Bizerte. Boatloads of thousands of penniless French refugees, fleeing the possibility of renewed war in Tunisia...
...Selectric is not stuck with one permanent type face. Typists can change type styles in a matter of seconds by opening the machine's cover and replacing one typing element with another bearing one of the six different type faces supplied by IBM. Typing ribbons come in plastic cartridges that snap into place and do not have to be threaded on reels by the typist. Paper is inserted by being placed against the roller, which automatically feeds it into the machine with the pressing of a button. The Selectric comes in two sizes, an 11-in. model...
...scoubidou is an obsessively popular French children's game involving the braiding of plastic strips...
...Puerto Rico, it is something like the Grand Canyon sunk under three to four miles of water. Like other deep ocean trenches, it is believed to be a place where the earth's crust is sinking into the interior, perhaps carried down by slow, enormous currents in the plastic mantle. Since trenches are characteristic of the Pacific Ocean, where they abound, some geophysicists consider the Puerto Rico Trench a part of the Pacific that has bulged into the Atlantic between North and South America. Another bit of bulging Pacific may be the trench-bordered Scotia Sea south of South...