Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside the brand-new, four-story, limestone Municipal Cultural Center in Jerusalem, a 9-ft.-high wire-mesh security fence was being erected last week. Inside, work is progressing on a bulletproof glass and plastic cage in which Adolf Eichmann will sit when he goes on trial. The cage, declare the Israelis, is both to shield Eichmann from assassination by an enraged spectator and to prevent a sympathizer from slipping him a vial of poison such as allowed Hermann Göring to escape the hangman's noose during the Nürnberg War Crimes trials after World...
Also Flyspecks. The spy ring was handsomely equipped. A Chinese scroll discovered in Lonsdale's apartment had a secret catch revealing a hollow core. It contained $1,800 in cash. A can of paint at Houghton's place contained a plastic bag with $1,820 in cash. The brandy flask at the Krogers' contained iron oxide powder, which can be sprinkled on magnetic tape to make coded messages visible. Fly-speck-sized pieces of film found in Helen Kroger's purse were "microdots"-photographs of documents shrunk down by special equipment to minuscule size...
...important point about his famous transformation of the Glee Club is that he did not accomplish it by dictating repertoire or purging those who opposed him. "Doc," as he soon came to be called, felt college men were intelligent enough to have good judgement but had taste plastic enough to be molded. He first improved the quality of the Club's singing, and then persuaded them to try some classical pieces in rehearsal. The first, Mendelssohn's The Huntsman's Farewell, appealed to them so strongly that they agreed to sing it in St. Louis in 1915 before a surprised...
...flack is a plastic-bottomed job with the four-inch base so common to American-made flacks. It has, of course, three speeds but no reverse, and if a mistake is made, there you are. I frankly was surprised to find that your man had noticed the flacks at all. In the past few months I have had very little need for flackery and had put the flacks in a closet along with my stults, which I haven't used for years. Incidentally, I do have four stults...
Getting ready at the top of a jump, Recknagel slides his plastic-coated skis back and forth to make sure they are not clogged, grasps the two supports at the opening of the starting pen and kicks against the back wall with his right ski. Then, tucked into a ball, he shoots down the slide and off into the freezing air, leaning forward over his skis until his nose seems about to touch their tip. With his arms thrust forward, he looks like a diver soaring endlessly through space. Back at the top of the jump, Recknagel's rivals...