Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet Nam, the protesters planned a march of 100,000 or more on the amphitheatre. A special 20-page convention issue of Rat, a New York underground newspaper, prescribed the minimal do-it-yourself demonstrator's kit: Vaseline for the skin to protect against Chemical Mace, two pieces of canvas for sleeping in the parks, and at least $200 in bail money...
...utter disregard for any outsider. Makonde tribesmen still slit their cheeks to identify themselves to the world, but it is unnecessary surgery. So inseparable are the images of a man and his tribe in Africa that it is as if he carried an invisible mark on his skin...
...collisions with space fragments may also rise. In the 1970s, supersonic transports (SSTs) will be soaring at 70,000 ft. -nearly twice the ceiling of present-day passenger jets. In that rarefied atmosphere, space garbage is still more of a menace; the tiniest fragment could puncture the metal skin of an SST. Pentagon, NASA and commercial aviation officials all concede the dimensions of the future problem. But at present, the only formal warning system for commercial aviation is Herb Roth's part-time effort...
...Every white throat cut is a success in itself," was one writer's contribution to racial amity. Digest was one of the first publications to take exception to The Confessions of Nat Turner on the ground that White Novelist William Styron was incapable of putting himself inside the skin of a 19th century Negro slave. More effective was a satire apparently written in answer to it. Just as Styron placed himself in the position of Turner, so did pseudonymous Author F. Tuy Holrel write in the first person about George Washington. The Father of His Country is obsessed with...
Another school of architects feels that a building ought to tell what is going on beneath its skin. The antic conglomeration of bumps, bulges and concavities of the Morris Mechanic Theater in Baltimore fairly shouts that the play's the thing?and also divulges stair towers and mechanical equipment spaces. With its fortress style, the Boston city hall states another simple truth: that city governments are under constant attack...