Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present or potential customers who are blind. Last week Manhattan's Chemical Bank New York Trust Co. produced a solution to one difficult problem of the sightless: how to write a check without aid. The bank showed off a Braille checkwriter that consists of an aluminum plate into which the sightless insert a special check. Guided by cutouts in the device, they can write the necessary data. There are also 35 perforated Braille openings through which the blind can record the information for their own checkbook balancing. Monthly statements will be sent out in Braille...
...shut in accordance with instructions is sued days before. From rooftops, from dark corners, behind Corinthian columns, Secret Service men with guns and electronic gadgetry and TV scanners gazed at the growing throngs. They guarded the speaker's stand in the east plaza of the Capitol, where armor plate braced the floor and 1½-in.-thick bullet proof glass formed a waist-high railing...
...realistically the Crimson are about as worried as Mickey Mantle at the plate facing Arnold Portecarrere on the mound. Yale was only kidding around with Cornell, and the varsity will only have to do the same to ring up its fourth win of the season...
Mattox is sure that his method has a great future in space-age construction that calls for the coating of such exotic metals as molybdenum and uranium that other plating systems cannot handle. The Mattox method can even plate the brittle ceramic parts essential to giant modern missiles and miniaturized computers-giving them such stick-tight coatings that they can be handled like metal components and joined together by brazing or soldering...
...were speedily constructing the presidential box for the Jan. 20 inaugural parade. Mindful of the Kennedy assassination, the Secret Service specified that the President will sit behind a protective setup consisting of a ¼-in-thick steel shield topped with a 1½-in.-thick slab of bullet-resistant plate glass...