Word: sheeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find the popularity of the thermal a bit of a mystery," says Chatham blanket company Executive Director G. Martin Coffyn. "Every warmth test we give it by itself registers zero. The labels say that in winter you need a light covering. That can mean anything from a sheet to a Hudson's Bay blanket." So covered, the blanket admittedly holds more warmth than a sheet or a Hudson's Bay alone would-but not much more, say its critics. There has been no great public outcry from chilled users, and the blankets continue to go like hot cakes...
...down a line of six balls, swinging onehanded and switching from left to right, knocked them 130 yds. or so. He drove 225 yds. off a tee 3 ft. high, poked fun at golfers who fuss about leaves and such around their ball, by covering his ball with a sheet of newspaper and picking it off cleanly. Hooking and slicing madly, Hahn cracked: "To a lot of you, these shots aren't too unusual." Then he boomed a perfect screamer 250 yds. down the middle. "I just can't seem to get rid of that straight ball...
...responsibility." A stirring appeal for U.S. commitment in Asia came from Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman, who said: "We in Thailand have no place to retreat to, so we will make our first stand and our last stand here." But he was optimistic: "If we draw up a balance sheet of our strengths and weaknesses and those of our antagonists, we would find it very much in our favor...
This month Phil Spector moved from a Manhattan penthouse to a rambling 21-room mansion in Beverly Hills, Calif., to be near his recording studio and Mother Bertha Productions, a subsidiary corporation that publishes sheet music. His mother Bertha is a bookkeeper there. The move was delayed by Phil's reluctance to leave his $600-a-month Manhattan psychoanalyst. Now, however, he figures that he can "keep my equilibrium" by calling the analyst long-distance any time he needs instant therapy...
Most U.S. civil rights organizations are feeling a financial pinch-largely because donors let down after passage of the civil rights bill while operating budgets keep rising. The civil rights balance sheet, according to leaders of the five largest organizations: > The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (S.N.C.C.) is currently so low on cash that it has cut all salaries in half (even those of $10-a-week workers in Mississippi). Officials insist that the problem is an annual one, caused in part by the fact that potential contributors are still paying Christmas bills. A victim of growing pains as much...