Word: stacked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those visions are all nourished out of a brown folder and a stack of papers that are always at Lyndon's elbow. The contents: polls, polls and more polls...
...director of the U.S. Information Agency: "Don't use an elephant gun to hunt toads." Counseled Guest Speaker Hubert Humphrey, the Senate's Democratic floor manager for the civil rights bill: "There is a place and a time for banners. But there is also a time to stack the banners for a while and get down to the patient, infinitely detailed work of making civil rights realities...
Though lots are still fairly common, land is becoming so scarce in larger cities that the chains are building highrise, pigeonhole garages where cars are placed on a computer-controlled elevator that automatically stacks them. If the chains decide that the high cost of putting up such buildings is justified by the labor savings, the automated stack will probably be the parking lot of the future. The bigger companies are also expanding from operating only their own garages, now are contracting to manage parking lots for hotels, hospitals, universities and even shopping centers...
...fame painting pictures of Campbell's Soup cans, and then topped that by making reproductions of shipping cartons for them. This accomplishment did not entirely satisfy him. Somehow, says he, "they didn't look real enough." Then one day, in a supermarket, he saw a stack of boxes used for shipping Brillo steel-wool pads. He was overcome with envy and a sense of beauty. So he had a carpenter make 120 Brillo-size boxes, and ordered a silk-screen stencil of the Brillo design. He stenciled it on all the boxes, just in time for his current...
...After each exposure the film was moved mechanically to array the tiny pages in close-packed rows. This miracle of miniaturization, which makes the traditional Lord's Prayer engraved on a pinhead seem downright brobdingnagian, can cram 1,000,000 book pages on a stack of 3-in. by 5-in. index cards about 4 in. high. It could pack all the books in the Library of Congress into six ordinary filing cabinets. To read one of these literary slides, a viewer can use a device similar to a microscope, or the material can be projected in standard page...