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...injured by the debris, which included styrofoam insulation underneath the sheathing, but Buildings and Grounds Department officials closed off the area for several hours as a precaution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wind Damages Section of Roof On New Bright Hockey Center | 1/3/1980 | See Source »

...their luggage arrive at the same destination at the same time. In some cases, when a plane is fully loaded, the airline may simply keep the bags at the airport and send them out on the next flight. In a lounge at Boston's Logan Airport, a Styrofoam AIR NEW ENGLAND sign bears several dents the size of a man's fist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Flying Low in New England | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...days of shooting ended when all of the scenery fell down, as planned, in a movie-within-the-movie that Kermit and his friends were trying to make. Their fake, Styrofoam rainbow lay in pieces, but through a jagged hole in the soundstage roof, a real rainbow was seen to shimmer. Happy ending. Quick, sweep the stage and pack the Muppets in their boxes, because taping for the new season's TV series begins in London in five days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Those Marvelous Muppets | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...methods are as imaginative as those of any high-octane huckster. As part of New York City's bid for the 1976 Democratic National Convention, a city meeting scout carried a huge styrofoam apple filled with real apples to the site selection committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Convening of America | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...Styrofoam swans, in full ostrich-feather plumage, floated serenely in the swimming pool, flanked by bouquets of roses and magnolia blossoms, at Billy Carter's place north of Plains. To the strains of the wedding march, Billy and his daughter Jana strode over a bridge built across the pool for the occasion. The bride wore white. Billy outdid the swans in his ruffled shirt and his pale, cream-colored tuxedo with brown piping and a broad brown stripe down each trouser leg. His hair is rapidly turning gray now, and he wept a little as he gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Big Bash at Billy's Place | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

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