Word: washing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Will you make than an order?" Pasztor said. Cox complied, and McCarty, saying, "You're the boss," began to usher the invited guests-Anand Panyarachun, Thai Ambassador to Canada; Nguyed Hoan, an aide at the South Vietnamese embassy in Wash-ington; Dolf Droge, a White House Vietnam adviser; and I. Milton Sacks, professor of government at Brandets-toward the door...
...Viet Nam was difficult enough in the days of the old H21 "Flying Bananas." Back then, in the early 1960s, one Viet Cong trick was to set up long spears and trip wires along the ground in such a way that they would be set off by the rotor wash of low-flying choppers. On occasion, startled pilots would find one of the V.C.'s wicked little missiles imbedded in the tail booms when they landed. Now as then, helicopters are extraordinarily vulnerable. Even a single rifle bullet in the huge disc-shaped target formed by the whirling blades...
...scenario could have been plucked from a lachrymose soap opera. For years, the leading soapmakers-Procter & Gamble, Colgate Palmolive and Lever Bros.-successfully wooed the U.S. housewife. By concocting an endless variety of "new" ingredients to make her wash "whiter," "brighter" and "sparkling," they induced her to buy more than a billion dollars worth of detergents and "pre-soaks" annually. The courtship intensified in 1967, when the soapmen introduced wonder-cleaning enzymes with a splashy campaign. The enzymes were first promoted in "pre-soaks," in which they act the way stomach acids work on food, eating away hard-to-remove...
...decisive evidence has yet been produced that enzymes in the family wash harm health. But a cloud of suspicion was raised by a 1969 report that English factory workers developed asthmatic symptoms and skin irritations after exposure to enzyme dust. To eliminate the dust, the soap companies began making their products in the form of tiny, coated beads. As for skin irritations, the detergent makers tested their products on many volunteers and pronounced enzymes safe. Disagreeing, the American Academy of Allergy declared in January that enzymes are indeed a potential hazard. The Federal Trade Commission has just completed a study...
Among the guests invited to the teach-in, he said, would be Dolf Drodge, a Nixon Vietnam advisor; a government official and a student from Cambodia; Milton Saxe, a professor of Government at Brandeis; and Senator Henry S. Jackson (D-Wash...