Word: pouches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Impossible Mission. Leaving the vicinity of St. Louis on May 14, 1804, the explorer's Corps of Discovery struck north along the Missouri. There were 45 untested men in Lewis' party and appalling instructions in his pouch: 1) explore the northern half of the new territory, 2) find a navigable northwest passage to the Pacific, 3) establish U.S. sovereignty over the Indian tribes, 4) make accurate maps and note favorable sites for settlement, 5) catalogue the animal, vegetable, mineral and human resources, and 6) do the whole...
...Wonderful, wonderful Macy's of Herald Square! As an Okie, I had to go to New York's Macy's to see my first (and only) living kangaroo (complete with baby in pouch, on display in the window) and my first (and only) man-eating piranha. It's a great store...
...Pieces." Naturally, a plethora of stereotyped gifts is available: pen sets, leather-tooled engagement calendars, letter openers, diaries, rulers, cigarette lighters and ashtrays. San Francisco's Gump's is doing a big corporate business in "fondling pieces," otherwise useless hunks of jade that come in a suede pouch (price: $8.25). This year executives can also give and get desk-scale Rolls-Royce radiators, fused into everything from paperweights to cigar lighters to book ends...
...opossum was chosen because it is a unique animal. Born only twelve days after conception, it spends the next 60 to 70 days in its mother's pouch, firmly and continuously attached to her breast. During that period, it grows and behaves much as a human embryo in normal gestation. Marquardt researchers are already well acquainted with the opossum, having learned how to detach the tiny fetus from the mother's breast to feed it artificially. Mixing drugs with the food, the researchers should be able to observe firsthand their effects on a growing fetus...
Although other U.S. cartoonists contented themselves with single jabs at the vulnerable presidential ego, they harmonized on the obvious theme: a convention so thoroughly ringmastered by the President that all the non-surprises came out of his pouch or his hat (see cuts...