Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power thus proved, Nixon had the convention in the palm of his hand when the delegates assembled to give him the nomination. In the roaring hall, Nelson Rockefeller presided genially over the New York delegation beneath Nixon banners, parked a plastic Nixon skimmer on his head and jubilantly joined the wild cheering as Nixon was acclaimed by all present and shouting...
...complain that his wife and four children, members of the sect, had disappeared, and he had a good idea where they were. Deputy Sheriff Ray Coffey went with Burke to the Full Gospelers' houses and found them sealed up, with newspapers over doors and windows, keyholes plugged, plastic covers over cooling outlets. Neighbors remembered the sounds of digging a while back, and it began to look as if the Gospelers had all gone underground...
...crew were ready. The SINS had the ship exactly on station. The control surfaces that could whip George Washington through the water like a startled eel now held it steady and motionless. On signal, the muzzle door atop a missile tube swung open. A small, explosive charge ruptured the plastic membrane that protected the bird from sea water, and a great blast of compressed air sent it rocketing toward the surface and its remarkable flight...
...work is theoretical problem solving, some of it is quite practical. Sample: How do you find out how much fallout there is on a house from an atom blast without exploding a bomb? Tech Ops' answer was to build a scaled-down city, surround it with plastic tubing through which radioactive cobalt 60 is pumped, and then measure the fallout. The results are projected to a full-scale city. Through such experiments for the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, Tech Ops will make recommendations for realistic civil defense measures...
Speech Prompter. For businessmen, teachers and other frequent speechmakers, Chicago's Telit Industries has a scaled-down version of the TV TelePrompTer, called the TelExecutive. The typed speech is held on a roll that moves across an illuminated plastic panel, can be slowed, quickened or reversed by a hand control used by the speaker. Cost: $169.50 v. about $2,300 for the commercial TV prompter...