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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ironically, the Yahoo-type hazing of Marshall made it more unlikely that any serious Senator would want to question him seriously. It made it all the more certain that his highly political appointment (not the first, of course, in Supreme Court history) would clear the Senate comfortably...
...demonstration on the Delaware River, eleven gallons of 50% Polycomplex A were sprayed on a 110-gallon oil slick. In two minutes, only a thin brown film remained; soon that disappeared. Similar tests conducted in tanks ashore proved just as successful. Six parts of Kuwait crude oil-the type carried by the Torrey Canyon-were dispersed by one part of Polycomplex A in five minutes...
...fares. One Los Angeles con man had been making the rounds of airport bars and restaurants, offering to sacrifice his commission and sell tickets cheap so that he could "build up a large sales report." Another imaginative fellow liked to tell prospects he was in the all-expenses-paid type of "prize business"-and would be glad to use his connections to get cut-rate tickets. Los Angeles police recently nabbed a half-dozen such characters...
Strickman remains tight-lipped about exactly how his filter works. Unwilling to jeopardize his pending patent, he merely says the filter consists of a new type of partly crystalline, nontoxic polymer that works by "selective trapping," perhaps based on ion exchange and electrostatic action. He claims it costs little to produce, can be part of the cigarette or used in a cigarette holder...
Thanks to the American Type Founders Co., Inc., an easy solution is at hand: the interabang, , a punctuation mark included in a new A.T.F. type face called Americana. The symbol was invented by Martin K. Speckter, an advertising-agency president and hobbyist printer, who had long brooded over the proper punctuation for such rhetorical questions of daily life as "Who forgot to put gas in the car" or "What the hell." Speckter's device, which he prefers to call the interrobang ("bang" is printer's slang for an exclamation point), remained just an idea until Detroit Graphic Artist...