Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make a date one night to meet in a nearby town. Just as Hope is about to leave home, his wife reminds him that he has promised to take his son to a Cub Scout meeting. Furious, he drags the boy off, sits through an interminable report on Indian smoke signals, arrives for the date two hours late-too late to do anything but tool over to a drive-in theater. They settle down for some heavy necking, only to find that they are parked beside their mutual laundryman, who is peering at them curiously. Terrified, they duck their heads...
...year or so from now, skywriting airplanes fill the heavens over the U.S. with "Buy Nutsies" in mile-high letters of long-lasting, bright-colored smoke, the credit (such as it is) will go to Betty Lou Raskin. 36, a research associate at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University. This week, at a Washington, D.C.. meeting of the American Society of Plastic Engineers, Miss Raskin unveiled the skywriters' dream weapon: "holey smoke" particles which are made of foam plastic and are so gossamer light that they hardly fall...
Most artificial smokes, Miss Raskin explained, are made of fairly heavy materials such as phosphorus pentoxide or petroleum oils. Even if their particles are only one micron (one twenty-five thousandth of an inch) in diameter, they fall through air at about eight inches per hour, which she considers too fast. Backed by the Air Force, Miss Raskin discovered a way to fluff various kinds of plastic into spherical particles that are mostly empty cells and almost as light as air. Miss Raskin's particles can be colored, and they fall 1,250 times slower than solid smoke particles...
Miss Raskin has sold the commercial rights to holey smoke to Dow Chemical Co. Besides skywriting, she sees a wide variety of potential uses for her discovery. Among them: 1) smokes to protect crops from frost; 2) military smokescreens and signals; 3) seeding rain clouds; 4) throwing up screens for the projection of movies (or advertising...
Failure of Faith. Dr. Fisher has been one of the least pompous of prelates-after a minor operation in 1939, he played Pack Up Your Troubles and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes on a barrel organ in Chester Market Square to raise funds for the hospital in which he had been treated. He has also been one of the least consistent. He has been more conservative than British public opinion on such issues as racial segregation ("This is not the sort of thing we should get excited and fanatical about") and divorce ("Adultery is becoming such a menace that...