Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ends-bobby pins, hairpins, miniature rollers or just plain rags-could be easily camouflaged around the house. In public, the works could be concealed under a snood or scarf, even fitted accommodatingly under a bathing cap. Most important, the head that hit the pillow (encompassed though it was in scrap metal) never had to worry about going to sleep: the weight of a million bobby pins, in fact, often proved a sort of sedative...
From then on, the only important distinction between friend and foe is that the foes appear to be better actors. Brave's foolish little war ends in a bloody climax, suddenly dumping all moral issues for the fun of a good scrap. The about-face calls for a final word from Lieut. Kuroki: "There is no death when the spirit rives." But when the spirit racks conviction, man, what good is riving...
...litter of dead car carcasses is bothering more and more civic groups, such as the National Council of State Garden Clubs. Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy has even urged the use of excise taxes on gasoline to subsidize the scrapping of cars. The trouble is twofold: 1) as population and incomes increase, more cars are made, and they have ever shorter lives; 2) the price of scrap metal has dropped as the steel industry has converted from open-hearth furnaces, which use up to 45% scrap metal, to oxygen furnaces, which use only 27% scrap. The price an auto...
...could look into the matter, decide if further investigation, perhaps of the HSA books, is in fact necessary, and discuss their opinions with the administration representatives. If the HPC could resolve this problem, it would demonstrate its future potentialities. If not, perhaps it would be best to scrap it, as I feel the HUC should be scrapped at the first available opportunity. Eric Delson...
...will order about 150 F-4 Phantoms from McDonnell Aircraft. While the decision will add to Britain's worrisome balance of payments deficit, Prime Minister Harold Wilson estimated that it will save $840 million over the next ten years. Wilson postponed an even bigger decision: whether to scrap development of the British TSR-2 strike bomber in favor of General Dynamics' F-111 (originally TFX) fighter. But he grumbled loudly at the "prodigious" cost of the British plane -as much as a prewar battleship...