Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...north on a solid girdle of independent black states stretching from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. In some parts of Middle Africa, colonialism was retreating in good order, leaving a promise, or at least hope, of peace in the transition to government by black men. In others, the process was jerky, confused and reluctant...
...process takes about a week in either case. At the moment the bronze emerges from the cast, the sculptor generally attends, like an anxious father awaiting the birth of a son. The bronze comes out orange, blue, red, yellow or gold. But these colors, caused by the firing, rapidly fade. Besides the usual bronze color, the Susse secret acids can produce mordant greens, equatorial blues and glossy black...
Commonest cause of death in these cases, they found, was blocking of a pulmonary artery by a traveling blood clot that had developed in the leg veins. This often undetectable process killed 40%-50% of patients over 50, who died after fractures of the leg, thigh or pelvis. So Drs. Simon Sevitt and Nrall G. Gallagher took 300 consecutive admissions of patients over 55 with broken thighs, and treated half of them with the anticoagulant phenindione to see whether it would prevent blood clotting and the fatal lung damage...
...AromaRama process itself, developed by a public relations executive named Charles Weiss, is fairly ingenious. The film carries a "scent track" that transmits cues to an electronic "trigger" that fires a salvo of scent into the theater through the air-conditioning ports. The AromaRama people claim they can reach every nose in the house within two seconds, and remove the odor almost as fast as they release it. The perfumes* are built up on a quick-evaporating base (Freon), and as the air is drawn off for filtering, it is passed over electrically charged baffles that precipitate the aromatic particles...
...confused with SmellOVision, the process developed by Mike Todd Jr. for Scent oj Mystery, a smellodrama scheduled for release next month. *Developed by Rhodia, Inc., a leading U.S. manufacturer of industrial perfumes. Among Rhodia's products: pine scent for knotty-pine-patterned wallpaper, leather smell for plastic briefcases, new-car odor for used cars, tobacco smell for cigar boxes, Strawberry scent for embalming fluid...