Word: strips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson Administration, which he accused not of having "bad policies," but of having "no policies." The Democrats, he said, "have put together a short-order foreign policy, serving each day's hash from the leavings of yesterday's mistakes." If given the nomination, he pledged, he would "strip away the sham promises, the heavy-handed politics-as-usual, the worn bag of political legerdemain which the Johnson Administration has substituted for a sense of national purpose. For the past six months the propaganda mills of that Administration have ground out a vast array of slogans and crackpot schemes...
...Cleveland, whenever a cardboard test strip turns blue, a second blood sample is taken for more thorough testing in the Kent-Leonards auto-analyzer at Western Reserve. If this test is also positive, the subject is asked to come in for a third check; if diabetes is still indicated, the subject's doctor is informed by letter, then by a telephone followup. Thus far, the tests have turned up a 4.5% incidence of diabetes among Clevelanders, and Kent and Leonards suspect that the old estimate of approximately 1% for the entire U.S. is far too low. They hope...
...poor." More sophisticated Western ladies snapped up models available in San Francisco stores and over the warnings of local clergymen that "nakedness and paganism go hand in hand," the first few tentative attempts at bare-breasted exposure took place. One deterrent: very few girls have either the courage to strip or the bosom to make it worthwhile...
...acre L.B.J. Ranch near Johnson City: $150,000. A 6,300-ft. landing strip, capable of handling commercial aircraft...
Cars spun along the strip, crashed, smashed, shattered, splintered, and stopped in a downpour of metal and glass. It looked like Indianapolis all over again, but the site was East Haddam, Conn., the event no sport but an experiment in automobile survival staged by the state police department to prove its contention that small cars are more vulnerable than standard models...