Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such words dented Wallace's armor-plated skin, he didn't show it. In the only scheduled speech of his one-day campaign kickoff, Wallace told some 300 applauding Butler University students: "I'm not a racist. I'm against interracial marriages. I think the Negro race ought to stay pure and the white race stay pure. God intended for white people to stay white, Chinese to stay yellow and Negroes to stay black. All mankind is the handiwork...
Once again French paratroopers came to Léon Mba's rescue. Steel-helmeted paras sent in quickly by Charles de Gaulle had saved the Gabonese President's skin only two months ago, when his 400-man army pulled a predawn coup and replaced him briefly with Op position Leader Jean-Hilaire Aubame (TIME, Feb. 28). In putting down that rising, the French troopers killed 27 Gabonese soldiers, then spirited Aubame off to an island just outside the port capital of Libreville, decided to stay on in the former French colony to keep an eye on things. Back...
...seeking out new uses for frit. The material is now used on classroom chalkboards, automobile mufflers and jet-engine afterburners. Ferro also turns out frit-based golf-hole markers and road markers, is developing a fertilizer business in which it mixes frit with zinc, boron and molybdenum. Porcelain enamel "skin" sections are hanging on many a U.S. skyscraper's shiny exterior, and frit-coated luminescent walls and lightweight doors are being turned out for houses. Not too far distant, at least in President Marks' dreams, is a house with outside panels of frit as insulation, luminescent inside walls...
Hawkes Second Skin...
...only possible in our generation: I predict it is coming even earlier," he said. And he voiced his wish that the next World's Fair would see "an America in which no man must be poor, In which no man is handicapped by the color of his skin or the nature of his beliefs...