Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Converting the house's peaceful grassy courtyard into a scene resembling a dogfight in a bakery, six Leverett residents wrangled with one another on a plastic sheet covered with dough. This year Leverett House opted for dough instead of chocolate pudding due to the rising price of pudding, said Alan J. Bauer '87, house committee chairman...
...published in September. "I wrote my book for a lot of reasons," Julie said last week. "I wanted to give * a full picture of my parents together, because so many times they've been viewed from controversy." Julie strips away the image of her mother as "Plastic Pat" to show a woman who held hands with her husband in White House receiving lines when she thought no one was looking, who escaped the claustrophobic atmosphere of the White House by occasionally sneaking out after dinner to stroll the streets of downtown Washington. Rather than complain about the frigid air conditioning...
...might expect, she goes directly to the closet. There she puts various articles of clothing into bags marked for Goodwill and the Salvation Army. The few knickknacks scattered around the otherwise stripped bare room get slipped into a box under her bed. Toiletries are thrown into a plastic garbage bag and deposited into the trash...
...most famous invention drove millions to distraction and him to the bank. Now Erno Rubik is beyond cubic. His latest brain twister, unveiled last week in Budapest, consists of eight thin 2-in. plastic squares joined by a cunning latticework of plastic threads: "Fishing line pretty much," he says. The key to Rubik's Magic Puzzle, which he has been working on for two years, is the thread and a special hinge allowing the linked squares to be rearranged in a countless array of three-dimensional configurations. "I haven't been able to calculate it," says Rubik with a trace...
...shift last Tuesday morning at the Kinross gold mine, 65 miles from Johannesburg. A welding team was repairing a broken track for one of the trains that help carry gold ore to the surface. Suddenly, an acetylene tank sparked and flared. Flames swept through the tunnel, igniting plastic-covered wiring, which in turn set fire to polyurethane foam that keeps the walls dry and solid. Within minutes the mine shaft filled with thick black smoke containing toxic fumes from the burning plastic. Choking miners immediately fell and died of asphyxiation. When the initial 9 1/2-hour rescue operation ended, 177 were...