Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
Leadership Vacuum...
...watch a working model steel mill, scramble through a captured German submarine, ride an elevator down to an operating coal mine under the museum, watch thousands of plastic balls fall into a probability curve, follow a feather and a penny as they fall at the same rate in a vacuum. Everywhere, the visitor participates, pushing buttons, pulling levers, yanking chains, turning cranks and talking into phones. He can play ticktacktoe with a computer, watch baby chicks hatch, walk through a throbbing, 16-ft. model of the human heart, see a display that illustrates "everything to do with...
Mostly, designers stuck to the rule of form following function. Tables, chairs, bookcases took a stripped-down, right-angular appearance supposed to defeat the Victorian furbelows that used to defy efficient cleaning. But-perhaps because vacuum cleaners are better than they used to be-the latest in functional form has found new curves to swing by (see color pages...
...inserting a quarter, he gets a five-minute jet stream of water and detergent through a high-pressure hose that he uses to spray the car. Another dime gets him a packet of lintless paper towels with which to dry the car, and yet another dime turns on a vacuum cleaner for the interior. Though quick and experienced washers can get away with one quarter, most find that it takes two or three to complete the job properly, also find that they need a bit of agility to keep their clothes dry. But whatever the system, it is cheaper than...