Word: starching
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This week, some 800 miles farther along its west-northwesterly track, the hurricane lost much of its starch lashing the hardwood forests of Yucatan. But as it entered the Gulf of Mexico, the air was humid and hot-just right to regenerate the black storm...
...Wimbledon last week, it was beginning to look like the year of the crocodile. Germany's Gottfried von Cramm, no crocodile but still a masterly all-court player at 42, could even now take the starch out of youngsters who could hardly lift a racket in the days when Von Cramm was a Wimbledon finalist three years running...
Rigid Diet. In Chicago, the Tribune syndicate's health columnist told a worried reader that her habit of eating three boxes of laundry starch a week would do her no harm, but asked her to let him know if it stiffened her stomach...
...Currently at home in Los Angeles counting the $70,000 he earned last year when Kramer took the starch out of him in 93 of their 121 matches...
...Escalator. The autoworkers were not the only ones. Burlington Mills upended the textile industry (and took the starch out of a union-organizing drive) by voluntarily adding 8? an hour to pay envelopes in 75 plants through the South and East. General Electric settled its siege with the C.I.O.'s International Union of Electrical Workers (see cut) for a 10? raise and a cost-of-living clause riding on a one-way escalator: if living costs went up, so would pay, but if costs went down, wages would stay up. I.U.E.'s archrival, the Communist-line United Electrical...