Word: wrapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many ways, President Johnson's anti-inflation package failed to wrap up answers to the nation's basic economic problems. But, for at least the short term, it provided a lot of ribbon, and Wall Street investors responded enthusiastically...
...Columbia Broadcasting System. The American Automobile Association is distributing Ode to the Road (Sept. 10) to its nationwide membership. A student found a boon in What (If Anything) to Expect from Today's Philosophers (Jan. 7). "More than anything else," he wrote us, "those two pages helped to wrap up a semester's course in modern philosophy-and just in time for the final exam." Protestant Theologian Henry P. Van Dusen deemed On Death As a Constant Companion (Nov. 12) "the most masterly in a notable sequence...
Slip & Saran Wrap. In 45 minutes, Ethel was hard. "When they tried to get me out of the cast, I wasn't coming out too well," she recalls. "They tipped me over." Her buttons were imbedded in the plaster, so Segal had to snip her out in her slip. As for the boots, they were hopelessly stuck and remained behind...
...didn't want to finish," she admits, "but then I didn't want to be a bad sport." So she let Segal smear her face and place Saran Wrap over her Kenneth coiffure, which preserved for history its general silhouette, if not the actual hair...
...toward the end our heads were spinning," says one of the German negotiators, "but it was worth it." With the West German government guaranteeing credits of $87.5 million, Demag is now the major partner in a consortium, also involving French and Belgian firms, that is confident it will wrap up a $150 million contract to build a steel-rolling mill for Red China. It will be the biggest deal yet in the rush among America's allies to open up the Chinese market...