Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble, which started at a plastic-flower plant in the northeastern part of Kowloon, quickly blossomed into the most prolonged disturbances in the colony's postwar history. Mobs of three or four thousand teen-age boys, usually led by older youths who wore Mao Tse-tung emblems on their shirts and waved the little red book of Mao's sayings, stoned hotels, overturned autos, set fire to a double-decker bus, and showered bottles on the police...
...three-doctor mission sent to Viet Nam by the Committee of Responsibility to Save War-Burned and War-Injured Vietnamese Children? Thirteen, for now. Eventually, reported one of the doctors last week, the program would probably transport from five to ten children a month to the U.S. for plastic surgery or prosthetic-device fitting too complex to be carried out in the western Pacific...
What of the Ramparts report of a million child war victims that provoked the formation of the Committee of Responsibility in the first place? The three doctors-Internist Henry Mayer of Redwood City, Calif., Plastic Surgeon John Constable of Boston, and Pediatrician Theodore Tapper of Philadelphia -struggled to establish reliable casualty estimates. They visited 37 of the Viet Nam government's provincial hospitals in three weeks, but in the end could do no better than accept the Vietnamese Ministry of Health's report that casualties are now being admitted to its hospitals at the rate...
...shooting irons. Brisk pacing might have helped, but Michael Winner's dilatory direction slows the picture's pulse. The only theft that comes off is Michael Crawford's-and he steals the show. Currently starring in Broadway's Black Comedy, Crawford, at 24, displays a plastic face and an elastic grace-comic credentials that should allow him to travel in faster and funnier company...
...battles have been waged more noisily than the fight for the nation's soap and detergent market. Warring over the $192 million-a-year business, Lever Brothers & Associates Ltd. and Procter & Gamble Ltd. have been spending some $45 million annually wooing housewives with everything from giveaway glassware and plastic daffodils to door-to-door sales calls by costumed "Fairy Snowmen." Now, under government pressure, the war-and the suds-makers-are taking on a new pitch...