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Answering questions from Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci, Rudolph claimed that he had requisitioned in March for the plastic used to "paint" City crosswalks. However, the order to the company was not placed until last week, Rudolph said, because of uncertainties about this year's City budget...

Author: By Glenn A. Padnick, | Title: Anti-Jaywalk Campaign Snags 30 Unsuspecting Offenders in Square | 5/24/1966 | See Source »

...droves. Eugene Nickerson, 47, chief executive of Nassau County, was the first to enter the race, in February. Samuels, 46, and Roosevelt, 51, joined him last week. Samuels, an articulate campaigner brimming with reformist zeal, is known as "the Baggie king," after one of the products of his plastic-packaging firm. Defeated in the 1962 convention scramble, he has a pretty wife, eight attractive children,* and no reluctance to use them as political assets. Samuels stretched his announcement into a swinging two-day foray by chartered plane to Washington and six New York State cities, freely dispensing food, wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: More Zig than Zag | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

...plastic explosive was planted in the earpiece of a telephone and set to explode at the sound of A on a tuning fork. After planting the device, the hunter called his victim, then twanged the fork. Boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Games: Homicide on the Campus | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

...find a new president, Dan Rodgers, 46, until now vice president of the competitive American Home Products Corp. With Revlon selling well in cosmetics, Rodgers, who succeeds George H. Murphy, is likely to concentrate on some of the company's subsidiary products, such as shoe polish, dyes, plastic flowers and women's sportswear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executives: Tips Toward the Top | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

...presented the other side of the case too: one man who claims he was in a flying saucer said the inside is lined with mother-of-pearl plastic, "like we put on toilet seats...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Harvard Astronomers Claim UFO's Are Based on Illusion and Religion | 5/11/1966 | See Source »

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