Word: zippers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Equally good as satires of scientific logic are an essay that postulates the existence of the Infinite Zipper and another that proves heaven is actually hotter than hell. The reasoning goes like this: heaven, which the Bible says receives 49 times as much radiation from the sun as the earth does (Isaiah 30:26), would therefore have a temperature of 525° C. Hell, where the main topographical feature is a lake of molten brimstone (Revelation 21:8), could have a temperature of no more, no less, than 444.6° C. Above that temperature, the brimstone would vaporize; much below...
...nothing I could see that could conclusively indicate a hoax." In his 1973 book, Bigfoot: The Yeti and Sasquatch in Myth and Reality, Napier explained his having told Argosy magazine not to dismiss the film. "In effect," he wrote, "what I meant was that I could not see the zipper; and I still...
...list of Blue's unacknowledged credits is Easy Rider, with all its patchwork imitations. The script concerns a sawed-off Arizona motorcycle cop named John Wintergreen (Robert Blake) who yearns to achieve style and respect by becoming a detective like Marve Poole (Mitchell Ryan). His goonish partner Zipper (Billy Green Bush) laughs at his aspirations, but their discovery of the body of a desert old-timer who may have been associated with some drug traffic gives Winter-green the chance to prove his stuff...
...says Lillian Gallagher, 41, a British housewife who earns $50 a week as a packer at the Japanese-owned Y.K.K. zipper plant in Runcorn, 18 miles from Liverpool. Hers is a rare testimonial in Britain, where labor and management often seem less interested in pulling their weight than tearing each other apart. Yet in Runcorn the prevailing spirit is "All the way with Y.K.K."-the corporate initials of Yoshida, the Japanese firm that is the world's biggest zipper manufacturer...
Meanwhile, Japan's YKK Zipper Co. has almost completed a $15 million factory in Macon, Ga., and to give it a touch of home the company will fill the grounds with 2,000 cherry trees. Japanese Developer Tsuguto Kitano has bought Manhattan's Murray Hotel, renamed it after himself, and will open for business next month. Kikkoman Shoya Co. opened a $9,000,000 soy sauce plant last week in Walworth, Wis. Japan's widely diversified Mitsui has revised its former policy of seeking export markets in the U.S. and is now shopping for new American properties...