Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...probably accounts for) the crowd; balloons and confetti add to the carnival atmosphere. All this hoopla and ballyhoo can't alter the hard fact that Humphrey, and not Nixon, is the one who really cares. I recently saw a sign which sums up the whole thing: Nixon Is Plastic; Humphrey Has Heart...
...Plastic Mentality. Oldest of the guerrilla theaters is the Mime Troupe, founded in 1959 by Davis, who had studied mime in Paris on a Fulbright scholarship. Initially, he and his company of 23 performers-as with most of the guerrilla troupes, few have had any previous professional experience-specialized in silent, Chaplinesque skits. Despite its name, the troupe has since broken loudly into song and speech; and its repertory, performed around the country, includes Renaissance commedia dell'arte, Moliere farces and group-created modern morality plays with so much bawdry that the actors have been arrested by local authorities...
...other wires or walked on by workers or the astronauts themselves. In addition, the more than 1,000 lbs. of nonmetallic materials aboard Apollo (grease, wire insulation, spacesuits, etc.) have been checked for flammability and replaced if they failed to meet NASA's new fireproofing standards. Flammable plastic-foam pads and nylon in the astronauts' spacesuits and seat belts have been replaced by Fiberglas "Beta cloth," which is heavier and more bulky but also more fire resistant...
...take Footsee, the newest craze with the playground set. The toy consists of a plastic ankle ring to which is attached a 30-in. string with a bell-shaped weight at the other end. The object is to twirl the string with one foot and hop with the other; well-coordinated youngsters can now twirl three Footsees at once-one on each leg and one on an arm. In the first three months on the U.S. market, about 4,000,000 of the $1.29 toys have been sold. The reason cannot be novelty: a similar toy enjoyed brief popularity four...
...then there is button-on-a-string. Versions of this simple plaything may be as old as the Pyramids. But that did not deter Kramer Designs of Royal Oak, Mich., from producing a pop copy with twin twirling plastic disks in psychedelic hues. When the string is pulled taut, the disks whirl apart, then clop together in mid-spin, sounding like a shark with loose plates chewing on an oyster. Op-Yop is its name. At $1 each, Kramer has sold 1,000,000 of them to date, confidently expects to sell another million by Christmas...