Word: washingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, the U.S. decided months ago to proceed unilaterally on a plan for mothballing but not dismantling four plutonium reactors, all about ten years old. Still, by the end of this year, the Atomic Energy Commission will activate a new production reactor at Hanford Works, Wash., able to turn out one ton of plutonium (which costs $15,000 per lb.) a year-about as much as three of the older reactors could produce together...
Laotians seemed less interested in politics than in the annual Phi Mai festival, during which for three days everybody doused everybody else with scented water to wash away bad luck and celebrate the arrival of the Year of the Serpent, symbolizing wisdom and chaos. Most celebrants used buckets; some favored water pistols. Before long, more serious weapons were in evidence, and Laos was in the midst of a military coup seeking to overthrow the shaky coalition government. Wisdom? That remained to be seen. Chaos? Plenty...
...much of their time discussing something that is far too big ever to be implanted as an internal organ: the artificial kidney. And the biggest news about it was a plan to make it still bigger, so that a machine that is now about the size of a home washing machine will take on the dimensions of a laundry. It will also, its developers hope, wash out the metabolic poisons from the blood of as many as 15 kidney-disease victims at once...
THEMES FROM SHAKESPEARE - Salpeter, 42 East 57th. A palettable painting party for his 400th birthday. Present: Antonio Frasconi's woodcut portrait of the poet; John Sennhauser's collage soliloquy, To Be or Not To Be; Philip Evergood's charcoal-and-wash of Macbeth and the witches; Mel Silverman's Will plastered against a 16th century papier-mache London; 16 other artists. Through April...
...what it would have cost him in the U.S.; then he had to educate French housewives in how to use it. Now his machines are coining profits for him 24 hours a day, and one member of Paris haute société sends her maid with the family wash in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce. When Chemical Engineer Frank Manley, 32, and his wife fell in love with life in Laos, he sold their return airline tickets to set up a travel agency. Now, three years later, he has a thriving agency, sells Kodak cameras and International Harvester tractors...