Word: pushbutton
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...some schools, teachers estimate fully half the pupils carry pushbutton switchblades or homemade zipguns. 'Many of these guns,' a teacher said, 'are made in the school machine shops in the presence of teachers who seemingly don't choose to know what is going on, or who are too timid to protest...
...Catch. A jamproof slide fastener will be put on the market by Talon, Inc. It has a pushbutton "Magic Tab" that opens the fastener's jaws to clear snagged threads or other obstructions...
...model that has been outlined (not by Humphrey) to the President is this: the basis of U.S. defense should now be a striking force of heavy bombers, supported by fast-moving aircraft carriers and guided missiles, with very little invested in defensive weapons, e.g., interceptor fighters or pushbutton establishments. The Navy should mothball battleships and similar outdated ships of the line. The Army should be cut close to Marine Corps size, with perhaps enough troops in Europe to satisfy NATO commitments...
...made the bull to a school of whales. The appointment of a naval aviator, Rear Admiral Frank Akers, as ACNO for undersea warfare [TIME, Aug. 24], seems to be forcing just such an arrangement. In their effort to keep apace with the Air Force in projecting themselves into the pushbutton future, the Navy has apparently relegated to the second team its most effective weapon in the Pacific melee-the submarine. Perhaps some boning up on naval history will remind the Navy that both the Kaiser and Hitler came very close to winning two entirely different world conflicts with...
...ignore it most of the summer. At length he will signal the gate-tenders of the great Gouin Reservoir at the St. Maurice's headwaters. Switches will be flicked. A flood of extra water will dissolve the jams and rush the beached wood along on its interrupted journey. Pushbutton logging is here to stay, but the dead yesterday of whiter water, bigger jams, geysers of dynamited wood, is still recalled fondly by a few oldtime draveurs. Murmured one, with fine contempt: "Today, it's like picking flowers...