Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Isosceles Triangles. Gone is the familiar desk to stash books and apple cores; each pupil every morning picks a plastic "tote tray" from a central rack. The kids hustle about all day in a bewildering variety of changes. Even the furniture arrangement is unpredictable. "They might be seated in rows, circles, squares or even isosceles triangles," says one teacher. "Or that day they might just want to clump around my desk...
...shares at 2 in February, now is selling at 12½-even though it was in the red last year. Sealed Air Corp., which offered 100,000 shares at 1 last October, is now selling at 7¾ on expectation of the success of its machine to weld plastic. A stock whose name suggests either electronics or technical mystery seems sure to have a jump in price. Among recent new issues, Nytronics has gone from 5 to 13¾, Renwell Electronics from 4 to 19, Bristol Dynamics from 7 to 19; Radiatronics, Pneumodynamics and Bell Electronic have all more than...
...developed by Technical Animations, Inc. of Long Island, whose sales have risen in five years from $7,000 to $600,000 this year. The company went into the black this year, but is spending its small profits in research. The development-called Technamation-is a method of applying transparent plastics to still pictures so that they appear to move when ordinary light, projected through a revolving disc of polarized plastic, is thrown on them. Motion can be controlled so accurately that a Technamated cutaway drawing of a jet engine shows the fuel flowing in and burning, the turbines and gears...
Early in April, a series of plastic bomb explosions upset Paris. To many, the terrorist activities brought panic, but to some they only confirmed certain hypotheses about things in general. Shrugging off the results of an April 4 explosion near the Paris Bourse, M. Papon, Prefect of Police, declared precisely and firmly for the record: "Nothing astonishes me in this century...
...weak: "When they gets to the place they've come to seethe Prado, say, or some old world hill town in Tuscany, they just sits on in the coach and views the 'ole thing comfortable on TV while eating honest grub, frozen up in Britain, all off plastic trays, like in aeroplanes. If they wants a bit of local atmosphere, the driver can spray about with a garlic gun." In her seventh novel, Nancy Mitford (Love in a Cold Climate, The Blessing) has abandoned high comedy for low farce, swapped her Waughspish satire of manners for Wodehousean huggermugger...