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...style dress to give his State-of-the-Union message to Congress, President Johnson urges that the moon be renamed "Kennedy" and then invites all legislators and their wives to a "real slambang" pit barbecue on the White House Lawn. The Bell Telephone Company announces that five-digit postal ZIP codes will be substituted for three-digit area codes "in order to lessen the number of codes a person must remember...
...Rodgers-and«Ham-merstein plaint, "We ain't got dames," but ham radio at least gives them a chance to talk to wives and girls back home at less than the cost of a normal Stateside long-distance call. McMurdo's post office has even sprouted ZIP Code...
...economic recession, overcapacity and a cutback in Government stockpiling, has not looked very glamorous since 1958. But rising U.S. wealth has brought back some of the shine to aluminum. Nowadays it seems to be almost everywhere, from towering curtain-wall skyscrapers to a whole new family of seamless, zip-top, snap-top and soft-top aluminum cans. Though profits have not yet kept pace, production is running at 95% of capacity, and shipments have risen 11% so far in 1963, to an annual rate of 3,100,000 tons...
...metal will be used in 75% of all beer cans. Alcoa is also perfecting a process in which seamless aluminum cans can be formed in a single operation from one small disc of metal, and is working toward a kitchen triumph: the first easy-to-open sardine can, a zip...
...mankind explains how to avoid the insoluble problem of extending into space the exclusive right of each nation to the air above it. Sovereignty extends upward as far as the hunter's weapons can reach, suggested Dutch Jurist Hugo Grotius in 1623, and allowing for the extra zip of modern musketry, today's pragmatic solution turns out to be much the same...