Word: powders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ducking Issues. In the final week of campaigning, Wilson, usually accompanied by his wife Mary, billowed through the hustings, laughing off barrages of eggs, bags of talcum powder, Tory hecklers and even a bolt of lightning that struck his train at Attenborough. Heath, whistling across the sceptred isle in an executive prop jet. plugged away at his efforts to swing 49 key marginal constituencies away from Labor. But Heath was unable to match Wilson's jaunty confidence. He did unbend enough toward the campaign's end to drink with workers in pubs and buss young girls. Nonetheless. Heath...
...individual liberty, for our stability" when-splat!-a young Conservative hit him with an egg. At other rallies, the Prime Minister caught a soft-boiled egg on his shoulder and a hard-boiled egg on his ear, and his wife Mary was hit by a bag of talcum powder. So it went, as Britain plunged into a three-week national election campaign...
There is something ludicrous about any Pops program, just as there is always a touch of the absurd in any attempt to poularize high culture, but this evening transcended even the normal insipidity of such things. For the benefit of a television audience, the orchestra wore powder-blue Xavier Cugat uniforms, and played an archetypal program. Gems like the Nutcracker Suite, Peter and the Wolf, and Bolero were featured, along with the Pops's own arrangement of the score of Hair. Maybe it was the heat from the spotlights, maybe it was the lack of rehearsal, but somehow the program...
...through the restive winter and early spring, the campus atmosphere had been heavy with intimations of bomb plots, and sometimes with actual whiffs of black powder. Last week's actions suddenly changed much of that mood. For one thing, dissent broadened so abruptly that in most places the far-left fringes were simply overwhelmed. At a Columbia University rally, Kent State Student Fred Kirsch was loudly applauded when he told a crowd of 3,000: "Look, I read Jerry Rubin's book. I talked about violent overthrow myself. But when those rifle bullets cracked past my head, I suddenly realized...
...licensed to use Xerox processes for computer equipment. The suit accused IBM of using trade secrets provided under that agreement to produce its new office copier. In IBM's process, an image of the original document is picked up by a photoconductive drum. A toner powder, mixed with developer fluid, cascades over the drum, which then transfers the image electrostatically onto the copying paper...