Word: plug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Candy Farmer. Like so much of TV, Hee Haw is a show that nobody likes -except the viewers. Newspaper critics reacted as if it were good reason to pull the plug on rural electrification. CBS, with unaccustomed humor, is running promotion spots replaying the show's most outrageous vignettes, with a kicker: "The critics are unanimous about Hee Haw-but watch anyway...
...space-age sealants, developed for caulking seams in spacecraft, now plug the gaps between bathroom tiles. Latex paints, developed as a protection against ultraviolet radiation, are being applied to home walls. Filament-wound plastics enable North American Car Corp. to make railway tank cars that weigh nine tons less than cars made of steel but are just as strong...
Pulling the Plug. Clifford's idea, Nixon told the Senators, was really not withdrawal at all, when the fine print was examined. Though more than 200,000 ground combat troops would be taken out by the end of 1970 under the Clifford plan, about 300,000 men in ground, air and naval support units would remain indefinitely thereafter. Without infantry protection, they would be prey to the enemy, totally dependent on South Vietnamese units. This approach is unacceptable to Nixon on both military and political grounds. The implication was that, except perhaps for token remnants, the Nixon plan amounted...
...Salad," suggests the waitress), the Hollywood types are naively shocked when told they will have to pay $2,500 for a week's display of Dr. Dolittle record albums in the windows of a Manhattan store. And how to get Rex Harrison to go to South America to plug the movie? Well, suggests one publicist, since the lobby-display pushmi-pulyus were made in Peru, "I think I can get him decorated by the Peruvian government for promoting cottage industry . . . The Condor of the Andes or something like that." Producer Arthur Jacobs asks: "Condor of the Andes first class...
...federal agencies, NASA has improved the complex quarantine procedures in Houston's $15.8 million Lunar Receiving Laboratory (TIME, Dec. 29, 1967), where the returned astronauts and their lunar samples will spend most of their three-week isolation period. The space agency has also taken makeshift measures to plug a major gap in the quarantine defenses: the post-splashdown exposure of the Apollo cabin atmosphere and the astronauts themselves in the earth's environment...