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...hard waxes generally come in small foil cans while the soft waxes, or "klister" in Swedish, come in tubes, like toothpaste. (The hardness of a wax is determined by the proportion of wax to resin, and the klister is almost entirely resin...
...hard waxes generally come in small foil cans while the soft waxes, or "klister" in Swedish, come in tubes, like toothpaste. (The hardness of a wax is determined by the proportion of wax to resin, and the klister is almost entirely resin...
...Wrestler Walt Garrison, who doubles as a Dallas Cowboy running back during the football season. "You got to be in good shape." The cowboys are all business as they wait their turn to compete, watching the action to pick up pointers or carefully dowsing their gloves and chaps in resin to improve the grip. "These fellows have changed a lot," says Frank Barrett, rodeo doctor at Cheyenne Frontier Days (attendance this year: 101,000) for 23 years. "I can remember when cowboys used to squat down and drink up before riding. I treated a lot more injuries then...
...Complications. Sometimes the problem to be overcome by barter is not simply shortages, but time. Recently Jim Caulfield, purchaser for an Illinois division of Wheaton Industries, needed a petrochemical-based plastic resin that is in short supply because of the energy crisis. His normal supplier could not deliver in less than four months, and waiting that long would cost Wheaton a potential contract. Caulfield knew someone who had a silo full of the resin, and made a deal to borrow 40,000 Ibs. -which he will repay by turning over the resin that his normal supplier eventually delivers...
Chief is structured, rather cleverly, as a send-up of John Frankenheimer's Seven Days in May (1964), in which a sometimes violent plot was enacted within hailing distance of the White House. Here, the President (Dan Resin) is turning the Secretary of Health's cherished VISTA camps into prisons for political dissenters. "Not concentration camps," the President hastens to reassure his Secretary (Richard B. Shull). "Detention camps−this is America...