Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nine-month-old military junta, Barrientos may fall into a flat spin one day; but in the meantime, he is flying high. His most notable accomplishment is something no other modern Bolivian ruler had ever achieved: control over the country's potentially rich, but notoriously inefficient tin mines...
Married. Lana Turner, 44, still well-knit Hollywood Sweater Girl (Love Has Many Faces); and Robert Eaton, 34, Hollywood businessman; he for the third time, she for the sixth (her others: Bandleader Artie Shaw, Restaurateur Stephen Crane, Tin Millionaire Bob Topping, Movie Tarzan Lex Barker, Rancher Fred May); in Arlington...
...success of the flip-top cap, brewers are searching for other package improvements. Schlitz last week introduced an improved flip-top whose blunt edges are guaranteed not to slice hands, as earlier models often did. Anheuser-Busch also announced that it is shifting to aluminum cans from tin-plate, even though brewers admit privately that any kind of can is a poor container for retaining beer flavor. Because 50% of all beer is now sold in supermarkets, beer companies are designing packages that will stand out on store shelves, catch the eye of housewives who do the beer-buying...
...week of bloody revolt and political confusion, there were at least as many reasons to believe that the promotion was largely a Barrientos maneuver designed to remove his rival from active command and prepare the Bolivian army for a final showdown against the country's Communist-dominated tin miners...
...says Lucille Simon of the courtship. "While he isn't that winning a dancer, his dialogue is great." For a honeymoon, Simon took his bride on a cruise through the Panama Canal, then went on a week's tour of East Coast steel mills to learn about the tin making that affected his tomato canning. One stop: at Wheeling Steel in West Virginia, where Simon informed Lucille: "Some day I'm going to be in the steel business." Said Lucille, whose sympathies were with the steel Industry's then embattled workers: "I hope you won't do that, because...