Word: rubbering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, survivor of a famed World War II ordeal at sea; of a coronary occlusion; in San Francisco. Off course and low on fuel, a Flying Fortress with Adamson, Rickenbacker and six others aboard was forced to ditch in heavy Pacific seas. The airmen drifted on rubber rafts for 23 days before being rescued-an experience that led Adamson to write a number of books on sea survival and a biography of the World War I flying ace whose courage he had observed at first hand...
...Rubber Stamp. Increasingly, Humphrey's lanky, wryly humorous running mate, Maine Senator Edmund S. Muskie, appeared to be assuming the role of healer for a fractured party. Talking to newsmen at his summer home in Kennebunk Beach, Me., he emphasized that Humphrey "doesn't want a rubber stamp or a carbon copy of himself" for a Vice President. Accordingly, he staked out positions slightly to the left of Humphrey's on at least two important issues. Referring to the conduct of Chicago's police, he noted that "a lot of innocent people were hurt." On Viet...
...claim to the Malaysian state of Sabah. The dispute is one of the more complicated quarrels on the international scene, but is not without a certain fascination of its own. The plot goes something like this; Sabah is a 29,000-sq.-mi. chunk of Borneo, rich in timber, rubber, tobacco and untapped mineral wealth. It is located in the Sulu Sea only 20 miles from the southernmost Philippine Islands. Once a haunt of Moro pirates, Sabah was signed over in perpetuity to the British in 1878 by its ruler, the Sultan of Sulu, in return for an annual honorarium...
...postage-stamp stage, a man and a woman appear, wearing only card board and painted fig leaves. The woman also wears a black rubber bra with red rims designed to resemble huge sunglasses. What follows is verbal love play and a kind of spoofy striptease in which the twosome gingerly play on the supposed skittishness of the audience. After a mock wedding ceremony in front of a barber pole ("Do you, Pandy, take this girl Mandy, because she is randy?"), a climactic libation scene occurs. Pandy and Mandy put on green mitts the size of baseball gloves and sponge each...
Amid widespread talk about a slower pace in the U.S. economy, corporate profits at the halfway mark of 1968 were remarkably handsome. According to a Wall Street Journal survey of 457 major corporations, second-quarter profits were up 10% from the same period of 1967. Largest gainer was the rubber industry, with earnings of nine companies bouncing...