Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...making $500,000 a year, has two children, a philosophy ("God is my kids, my old lady,* green grass, trees, machines and animals"), a mountaintop Hollywood home, and business interests worth $300,000. In the language of producers, he is white-hot. He has just finished Love with the Proper Stranger with Natalie Wood, and he is making Soldier in the Rain with Jackie Gleason and The Traveling Lady with Lee Remick. "I got loot, a family, property, and I'm heading for the big apple," he says, stepping on the gas. "You know-the brass ring. Everything...
There is an obvious solution: cook up synthetic detergents that even choosy bacteria will consider delicious. And last week Esso Research and Engineering Co. of Linden, N.J., announced that it has finally found a recipe with the proper ingredients: pleasing to the bugs and cheap enough to fit the household budget. The concoction, however, was easier to dream up than to prepare...
When they passed the proper hydrocarbons, sulphur dioxide and oxygen near a chunk of fiercely radioactive cobalt 60, the gamma rays from the cobalt knocked a hydrogen atom off the hydrocarbon molecules, making them highly reactive. After enough of these free radicals had been formed, the cobalt 60 could be removed, and the reaction proceeded without further stimulation. The result was SAS (sodium alkane sulfonate), a long-chain detergent that washes clothes and dishes every bit as well as the troublesome...
...Department today has very serious administrative problems and goes through more internal upheavals than are good for it. Social Relations also maintains a most precarious equilibrium: in attempting to balance the proper amount of interdisciplinary pioneering and in trying to divide its energies equally between undergraduates and graduates, the Department puts itself in a position where the slightest changes in prevailing conditions require complete re-evaluation of the whole program...
...Kenyatta's heir apparent. They are Tom Mboya, 32, the bright, able and ruthless labor leader who leads a moderate faction inside KANU, and Communist-leaning Oginga Odinga, 52, who wears a blue Mao Tse-tung-style workingman's uniform. Kenyatta moved promptly to secure a proper balance in his new administration, handed almost equal Cabinet posts to the two contenders: Mboya was named Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, and Odinga was given the potentially powerful Home Affairs Ministry. Against all predictions, Kenyatta named no one at all as vice premier...