Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gathering in the French Quarter for a two-day meeting of the Republican National Committee, G.O.P. leaders found themselves in the thick of a determined stop-George movement. Though the city's pre-Mardi Gras atmosphere was giddily festive, the conclave itself was marked by sober misgivings about the Michigan Governor's ability to speak out clearly on major domestic and international issues. As some of Romney's support began to erode, Richard Nixon, the G.O.P.'s perennial workhorse, began to shape up as its potential dark horse as well. Clearing the Track. The former Vice...
...inward, leaving the tread to form a tight, flexible band around the wheel. Former Chrysler President William C. Newberg's entry may be the most novel of all. The device, called PosiTrac, is a steel rim fixed to the metal wheel inside an ordinary tire, capped with a thick rubber tread. In case of a blowout, the car can be rolled along on the inner rim at up to 30 m.p.h. Newberg claims that with Posi-Trac, which costs $80 a set, "nails, spikes, bullets, you name it, cannot stop the car insofar as tires are concerned." More conventional...
Sulky Sun. On Dec. 5, 1952, a thick fog began to roll over London. Hardly anyone paid any attention at first in a city long used to "pea-soupers." But this fog was pinned down by a temperature inversion, and was steadily thickened by the soot and smoke of the coal-burning city. Within three days, the air was so black that Londoners could see no more than a yard ahead. Drivers were forced to leave cars and buses to peer closely at street signs to find out where they were. Policemen strapped on respiratory masks. The Manchester Guardian reported...
...United Nations he may sometimes seem a dogmatic hardliner. It turns out that Soviet Ambassador Niko lai Fedorenlco, 54, is also reasonably good with the one-liners. He showed up on TV's Merv Griffin show, brandish ing a thick Havana cigar, which made him look as if he'd learned his Marx from Groucho. As he mentioned Channel 5, the station that broadcasts the show in New York, he grinned: "My wife likes Channel 5 (applause) . . . Chanel 5 from Paris, you know [laughter...
...Determined Hanging. Much of Pascin's life was a Sisyphean search for satiation. He decorated his endless parties with nude girls, recalls one writer, "as one might place flowers in a vase." Under his perennial black derby, he was sensuously ugly, with heavy features that had the thick texture of Dromedary dates. As he began to age, his art more and more portrayed the image of an old man teased by willing sprites. Only fetishes could further inflame his nudes; lesbian poses and green stockings added a salacious veneer to his final fleshy visions...