Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that before the play opened it went through one leading man (Michael Rennie), five directors and 13 endings-the 13th on opening night. The script was so unpromising that it took five coproducers to cajole in the $100,000 nut. As it turned out, Any Wednesday came in on rubber heels-a Broadway term describing a sleeper smash that confounds the handicappers...
...Pushed a resolution through his rubber-stamp National Assembly, effective July 1968, renouncing the international convention honoring political asylum...
...once lackluster industrial production is joining the general upswing. Having slumped from its December peak of 159 (based on the 1957-59 standard of 100), the index for output in July recovered and climbed back to 156.3. Lending a helping nudge were major strike settlements in the television and rubber industries. In July there were also rises of 3.6% in mining output, 3% in electrical machinery production and 2% in auto manufacturing...
...cushion landing gear (ACLG) developed by Textron's Bell Aerosystems Co. of Buffalo. Based on the British Hovercraft principle (TIME, June 2) and conceived by Bell's T. Desmond Earl and Wilfred J. Eggington, the system employs an elastic bag made of laminated nylon and rubber attached to the underside of the plane. For takeoffs and landings, the bag is inflated through louvers in the plane's underbelly by a fan on board. Air is forced through hundreds of openings on the underside of the bag, producing an air cushion that holds the aircraft off the ground...
...Fanned by 35-mile-an-hour gusts, fireballs leaped to other fully loaded planes, trapping the pilots inside. As bombs and rockets exploded on the 1,000-ft.-long flight deck, the flames spread to the hangar deck far below. Engulfed by flames and smoke, crewmen and pilots tossed rubber rafts overboard, then plunged 90 feet into the waters below...