Word: plastic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While His Majesty was on the operating table, he also had another matter taken care of: his physicians did a quick plastic surgery job on the scar which had marred his right shoulder ever since 1949, when he was shot by a nationalist fanatic who thought the Shah was too friendly with foreigners...
...pays to have the image unscrambled. The three main methods: 1) Zenith's Phonevision, . .which pipes the unscrambling signal over telephone lines, with the charges going on monthly telephone bills (TIME, June 4); 2) Skiatron, which equips TV receivers with built-in "decoders" that are operated by special plastic cards; 3) Telemeter, which attaches a coin-in-the-slot gadget directly...
Their reproductive organs, for instance, are extremely "plastic." Some male lice have their genital openings in their backs; others have them underneath. Some depend on strong antennae for clasping the females. The females also vary, and even a short period of isolation may bring significant changes. Such drifting apart, say the colonel and Theresa, has often created new species of lice...
With a burst of pride, Firestone Plastics Co. Inc., a subsidiary of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., last week announced that it had been awarded the Fashion Academy Gold Medal Award. The reason: "Firestone's Velon [a new plastic fabric] accents its economy . . . with distinctive beauty of design and unique color styling." Many a businessman and consumer who have seen the words "Awarded the Fashion Academy Gold Medal" spread across millions of dollars of advertising space, had cause to ask: Just what is the Fashion Academy Gold Medal Award...
...ornate, five-story Fifth Avenue building, decorated more like a Renaissance palace than a school. In the past 17 years Hartman has handed out awards to about 50 companies for "exemplifying the best in American design." Sample winners: Ford, Motorola, Ronson lighters, General Electric (for a plastic furniture covering), Kaiser-Frazer, Elgin, Parker, United Air Lines (for its Mainliner interiors), Packard, the Chicago Tribune (for "being inspirational to students of design...