Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Guatemala City (pop. 1.5 million), damage ranged from cracked walls and broken windows in middle-class residential areas to the total destruction of entire blocks in the adobe-hut districts of the poor. Hundreds of corpses, covered only by thin sheets or plastic, lined the streets the morning after the initial quake. Surgeons from the capital's General Hospital performed operations-often without adequate equipment-in a field tent set up outside the damaged hospital...
...like most of the students at Harvard, your I.D. card is just a 2 in. by 3 in. slip of plastic with a picture you'd rather forget, a nine-digit number you wish you could remember, and a little black stripe that serves absolutely no purpose...
Princeton's Mike Knockles and Keith Ely supplied additional bold strokes of brushwork to the Jadwin Gymnasium canvas, pasting the somewhat plastic torsos of freshmen Bill Mulvihill and captain Jim Strathmeyer to the mats...
...billion U.S. amateur photography market, is looking to cash in heavily on the same idea. This spring it will offer its supersophisticated SX-70 self-developing picture technology in a new camera called Pronto. Lighter and less cumbersome than the SX-70 original, with improved electronic circuitry, the black plastic Pronto will list for $66 but probably will be reduced by discounters to about $50-a third of the $150 that the highest priced SX-70 sells for at discount. Yet it does the same thing that the more expensive SX-70s do: at a touch of the shutter button...
LUGE Singles competition for men and women, doubles race for men on small wooden sleds which have canvas or braided plastic seats. Same course as for bobsled but with more steeply inclined starting ramps. Best combined time for four runs wins singles; best time for two runs wins doubles...