Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...risen from 25 million to 3.6 billion in two years. Designers are now working on flip-tops that will remain on the can after it is opened, thus avoid cutting feet when tops are tossed carelessly on floors or beaches. Recently U.S. companies adopted the Swedish idea of covering vacuum-pack coffee cans with plastic lids that can be used to keep the product fresh. Some companies have already taken the next obvious step: putting advertising stress on the containers instead of on the product, as Chase & Sanborn does with its decorated coffee canisters...
Andrew Pilgrim (Fred Clark) is a renowned academic scientist who is deep in debt. He has a handsome offer from a corporation called Baldwin-Nelson. Pilgrim is a kind of disorganization man. He plays the cello and knows all about ultrasonic energy, but he cannot turn off the vacuum cleaner or find his shoelaces. His wife (Ruth White) pens scholarly works on dead languages...
...report 8-1, and the one dissenting member, Frank H. Westheimer, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry, will be doing research this fall and doesn't plan to oppose the legislation actively. The Dean of the Facuty favors the report. Besides, the advocates are operating in something of a power vacuum; very few individual professors who have not already had a hand in the report care enough about General Education to thing through substantial amendments and lobby for their passage...
Leadership Vacuum...
Nancy Moran views the MFDP in a distinctly more limited environment. Her day by day account of the intense debate that occurred within the MFDP over the tactics to be employed at the Democratic convention reveals the virtual vacuum of leadership that seems to be developing within the Negro community. By the end of the convention, the MFDP delegates had effectively rejected both the advice of the Northern leaders and the leaders themselves, Miss Moran notes, and she questions whether there is any effective Negro leadership at present...