Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Absolute Privacy. The day is just about gone when police used rubber hoses, explained a defendant's suspicious bruises by claiming that "he fell downstairs," or (in New Orleans) made hydrophobic Negroes talk by suspending them over a lake canal at night. Today, the goal is "rapport" with the "subject." Having discovered psychology, the cops induce "truth" by psyching the suspect...
Twenty-nine people wanted fur. But they didn't get it, because 46 people wanted rubber. And they didn't get it, because 49 people wanted aluminum. What everybody got was Hybrid, the consensus objet d'art of 1965. It is the result of what two young British artists, Gerald Laing, 30, and Peter Phillips, 26, called an "art-consumer research project...
...young monk, possessing nothing but his begging bowl, his robe and a pair of rubber sandals, went with Tri Do to Hanoi. There he caught sight of Ho Chi Minh and was swept by the fever for freedom from the French. In the years of war against Paris, the French suspected, probably rightly, that the lithe bonze with the burning eyes was helping Ho's Viet Minh front. They once jailed him for ten days on suspicion that he was a Communist, but they could not prove it?nor has anyone since, despite the taint of suspicion that still lingers...
Pirelli considers business looks so good that he has to "stamp down" his optimism. "In cable production, our group leads the world." Among Europe's tire and rubber goods producers, Pirelli is "about equal with Michelin." Worldwide, Pirelli acknowledged, his group is far behind such giants as Goodyear and Firestone, but that didn't seem to bother him. He does not intend to in vade their home markets in the U.S.; and therefore, "in the main, it will be a battle between our subsidiaries and their subsidiaries in specific markets, and in many cases our branches will...
Spikes & Volts. Leopoldo Pirelli is a deeply tanned sailing enthusiast and an imaginative businessman, the third in the family line since Giovanni Battista Pirelli established the company in 1872 because his patriotism was hurt when Italy had to import rubber tubing to raise a sunken ship. He set up a factory on the site of the present Milan skyscraper headquarters, and from there Pirelli grew to be Italy's fourth largest company. Giovanni's son Alberto helped sponsor the Peking-to-Paris auto expedition in 1907 as a promotion for Pirelli tires. Alberto also took a ride...