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...other wires or walked on by workers or the astronauts themselves. In addition, the more than 1,000 lbs. of nonmetallic materials aboard Apollo (grease, wire insulation, spacesuits, etc.) have been checked for flammability and replaced if they failed to meet NASA's new fireproofing standards. Flammable plastic-foam pads and nylon in the astronauts' spacesuits and seat belts have been replaced by Fiberglas "Beta cloth," which is heavier and more bulky but also more fire resistant...
...resources of that difficult, plastic language. Ivan Denisovich's speech is essentially free of foreign-derived words, as is the entire book. One of the prisoner-scientists in The First Circle insists on attempting what he calls "plain speech," in which non-Russian words are banished, even if puzzling archaisms must be substituted. For example, he replaces the Latin-root word kapitalizm with the old Russian word for usury, tolstosumstvo (literally, "moneybaggism"). Solzhenitsyn himself has proposed that Russian be purified in this way. His strongly held views on language not only contribute great power and control to his writing...
That impressive test was part of a program sponsored by the Air Transport Association to clear the fog from the nation's airports. Known as a Fog-Sweep, the big machine is actually a mobile blower with a 100-ft. flexible plastic tube that pops up, jack-in-the-box style, once its fan starts whirling. Out of the tube comes a spray of chemicals that are close kin to ordinary household detergents. And 70% of the time, they can "wash" away enough fog to let planes fly in and out of closed-down airports...
...Mutiny on the Bounty and Advise and Consent. His personal life was littered with four broken marriages and several fights, one of which-against Bit Actor Tom Neal over the affections of Tone's third wife, Barbara Payton, in 1951 -left him with a battered face that required plastic surgery...
CAMBRIDGE is Artsy. Everybody knows. And Art is everywhere in Cambridge. Every little show on Mass. Ave. sports its own head posters, Night Watches and Van Gogh bridges along with Jewish holiday cards, plastic roses and scented pillows. But few bare walls are ugly enough to be insulted by a dollar's worth of commercialized psychedelia incongruously mushed with Great Oil Painting of the Western World...