Word: sheeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...copies of an issue of the United Auto Workers' weekly tabloid Solidarity last month was a provocative four-page insert calculated to catch the eye of each of its estimated 5,000,000 readers. Its cover page was alive with a drawing of a sheet-hooded, club-carrying Ku Klux Klanner standing menacingly next to the Statue of Liberty. Caption: WHICH Do You CHOOSE? LIBERTY or BIGOTRY. Printed inside was the full text of the rousing speech by U.A.W.-endorsed Jack Kennedy to Protestant ministers in Houston...
Positive Results. Now, with a formal embargo under way, Canadian businessmen are betting that their picture will improve. Selected Canadian export figures for 1960's first half show an upward trend compared to 1959: sheet and strip steel went from $149,000 to $212,000, aircraft engines and parts from $35,000 to $209,000, synthetic rubber and plastics from $17,000 to $255,000, medicines from...
...tiny kidney that seemed to be trying to purify the blood of a nonexistent chick. Liver cells developed into a miniature liver one-fifth of an inch long and apparently able to secrete bile to digest a chick's food. The skin cells arranged themselves into a sheet, produced sprouting feathers about one-tenth of an inch long...
...students across the country enrolled in the TIME Education Program. A supplement to TIME'S annual Current Affairs Test, the 50-question quiz was created as an entertaining way for college and high school students to review the news. You may have a complimentary copy (and answer sheet) by writing to Vacation Review Quiz, Box 415, New York...
...good deal since the appearance of The Poker Party; he has tamed his metaphors and come up with some fine images (his eyes bulged like tiny white balloons; the crown of the sun, burning into the top of the ridge like a match burning into the edge of a sheet of paper). There are still signs of roughness, however, and a profusion of commas and semi-colons in paragraphs where Kelly jams together various clauses in a weak imitation of Faulkner. In one place, near the beginning of the story, Kelly pictures the imagination of the little boy wandering from...