Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...land reform, López Portillo is unlikely to reverse expropriations already carried out. But he will move slowly on new ones. "The land is not made of rubber," he has told advisers. "It is not elastic." There will simply not be enough arable soil for everyone. Larger, more efficient holdings, however, may increase, since they are prime earners of U.S. dollars...
...million people have taken up racquetball-an indoor racquet game played on handball courts-in the past six years, making it the new boom sport of the tennis-conscious '70s. To accommodate it, new courts are rising as quickly-and conspicuously-as the welts caused by the hollow, rubber racquetball...
...year after Francisco Franco's death, the rubber-stamp parliament in Madrid moved Spain along the road to democracy in a curious way-by voting itself out of existence. After three days of sometimes emotional debate, the Cortes overwhelmingly approved (425 to 59, with 13 abstentions) the government's political reform bill (TIME, Nov. 1), thereby promising Spain a Western-style democracy for the first time in 40 years. Under the provisions of the law, a bicameral legislature (a 350-member elected congress of deputies and a 207-member senate) will replace the present Cortes, in which less...
...Rubber Gloves...
...lively and resilient modern ball was the brainchild of Coburn Haskell, who proposed a rubber core. Nowadays, wind tunnels are used to gauge flight trajectory and a miniature guillotine tests the toughness of the cover. The latest breakthrough in the industry is the truncated dimple, and a controversy rages over the relative merits of balata or surlyn covered balls. Balata is a kind of tree gum, and surlyn is a synthetic material pioneered by Dupont...