Word: soupcon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...usual in an emergency, they reacted with remarkable individuality. Floyd Wallace of Leslie, Mich., claims to have found a way to concoct a gasoline substitute by cooking in a big steel drum ingredients as unlikely as wood, leaves, brush and a soupcon of everyday garbage. In Massachusetts, the Warren Savings Bank whittled electric usage by doing its evening banking by candlelight; the city fathers of Block Island, R.I., put the community back on daylight saving time. Students at Boston's New England School of Art devised a means of keeping their nude model warm when they turned the thermostat...
...Talking Book. The more culturally oriented can find cassette recordings almost everywhere of actors and poets such as Richard Burton and Dylan Thomas reading famous plays and poems, but the French have gone a soupcon further. Issued in Paris this fall is France's first "talking book," a cassette volume of 22 works of the Mexican poet Octavio Paz (in Spanish, with a French translation included). Also included are elaborately illustrated pages of handmade paper, on which the verses themselves are printed. Only 301 copies were produced; each retails...