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Word: wrapped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less expensive trees. Farmers who cut and sell wild trees for extra income are being edged out by large tree plantations, where as many as a million evergreens are mechanically planted, protected and harvested, then carefully graded by size and shape. To protect their trees, shippers have begun to wrap them in a new plastic mesh that costs about 25? a tree but ensures arrival in good condition. At Montreal's MacDonald College, Dr. A.R.C. Jones is grafting European pines onto Canadian trees to produce a greener, fuller tree that will retain its needles longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: And a Profit In A Polyvinyl Tree | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

...Hammacher Schlemmer offers "Worldtemp" cuff links that register centigrade temperatures on one link and Fahrenheit on the other. Honeywell's $39.95 fishing thermometer comes with 60 ft. of line and a gauge showing which fish bite best at various water temperatures. For $99.50, Abercrombie & Fitch will gift-wrap an instrument that simultaneously tells temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, time of day and day of the week. And for the man who has every thing, and ran hard to get it, there is an executive foot massager, available at Manhattan's B. Altman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Merchandising: The Business of Giving | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...surprises and even fewer laughs in this sex scramble based on George Axelrod's Broadway flop. Charlie is a rakish Hollywood screenwriter who has a way with other men's wives. Shot by a jealous husband (Walter Matthau), the roue returns to life in flesh-toned Reynolds wrap, presumably to see how the other half lives. "It's the Old Testament!" shouts Curtis as the miracle dawns. "The tables have turned-there's a grandeur about it that's staggering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Androgynous Farce | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

Curt Simmons will duel Jim Bouton in St. Louis today as the Cardinals try to wrap up the World Series in six games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Simmons, Bouton Vie in Sixth Series Game | 10/14/1964 | See Source »

Republican Molesworth began by ridiculing President Johnson's plans for "The Great Society," claiming that the Democrats "want to wrap up every American in a cocoon of red tape. That's the trouble with the welfare state. You can't get the benefits without giving up some of your freedom. The land-of-milk-and-honey boys want to tell you what...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: Noel Day Blasts Barry Goldwater As Hardhearted | 10/8/1964 | See Source »

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