Word: powders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Native Passion. One fact to emerge from the recent wave of arrests is that the Soviet apparatus seems sentimentally fond of such old cloak-and-dagger standbys as false bottoms in valises, hidden compartments in talcum-powder cans and toothpaste tubes, and flashlights with message chambers instead of batteries. A Russian spy's residence usually has as many trap doors, hollow beams, false walls, secret passages and double-and triple-locked doors as a Grade B horror movie...
Oryxes are in trouble in Araby be cause of the local conviction that the horns of an oryx give sexual vigor when ground into powder and eaten. Today oil-rich Arabs are so eager for vigor that they chase down oryxes in high-powered cars or even in airplanes, and slaughter them with machine guns. As a result, hardly an oryx is left alive in its native desert...
Among the hard-living racing types, Clark is something of an oddball. He never smokes, rarely drinks, owns "two or three, I think" suits of clothes. He refuses to hire a business manager ("I don't want to be bandied around like some blooming new soap powder"), and once turned down a publisher's offer with a curt: "I just don't want to write a book." He regards racing as something akin to painting or music-an art, in which perfection is probably impossible but still worth trying for. Sometimes he worries about whether he likes...
...oxygen steel furnaces in Cleveland recently poured 491 tons of steel in one hour, compared with 60 tons for a similar-sized open hearth shop. Last week Reynolds Metals Co. announced that it had developed a laboratory method of turning bauxite into aluminum without first reducing it to alumina powder,* and that other revisions in its existing production lines will enable it to increase production more than 21% on demand...
...POWDERED MILK FORMULAS are nourishing and simple enough to concoct:one cup of powder, one quart of water, and the bottles are ready. But through misguided generosity, mothers sometimes mix a thick formula that is far too concentrated. Instead of more nourishment, the infant gets an indigestible lump of protein in his stomach and may suffer nausea and diarrhea. The lumps have long baffled doctors; they have even been mistaken for kidney tumors, and hasty operations have been performed on the overfed patients. Doctors have now learned to identify the lumps by X ray, and a pair of Louisville physicians...