Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...smallish, owlish man, Goldberg is as alert as a chipmunk, packs an astonishing amount of stamina and energy (in the thick of marathon negotiations, he switches from Sanka to coffee). Although his manner is amiable, he is as tough as whip leather at the bargaining table...
Died. Gregory Ratoff, 63, flamboyant actor, director and producer who played all his roles with a thick Russian accent, a $2,500-a-week asset of which he made light. ("Italian, I murder; Eenglish, I only manslaughter.") St. Petersburg-born, Ratoff left Russia after the Revolution, after years as a Broadway and Hollywood star won a reputation as one of filmdom's most versatile and gaudily garbed directors; of leukemia; in Solothurn, Switzerland...
...brine, and then remelted to obtain a pure product. The Ionics system, developed by Executive Vice President Walter Juda, does neither. It is an electrical process that exploits the natural attraction of opposite charges. Ionics uses a 4-ft. stack of 18-by-20-in. plastic membranes, 1/32-in. thick and 1/25-in. apart, between which the brackish water circulates. When voltage is applied across the stack, positively charged ions of impurities are drawn through one set of membranes, while negatively charged ions go through the other set of membranes. The concentrated brine is tapped off, leaving a continuous stream of fresh...
...ragged rectangle the size of Texas and Oklahoma combined. Just behind the beach, guarded by a great green mangrove wall, lie sweltering swamps-and the mosquitoes whose deadly bite kept white men from settling Nigeria as they did Algeria, Kenya and the Rhodesias.* Beyond the swamps is the thick layer of tangled rain forest, where the natives pick cocoa pods for the world's chocolate factories and gather oil palms for the big soap firms. Then comes the undulating grass country, rising in the north to the crusty, arid, mile-high floor and then to the hot Sahara...
Back in Palm Beach, Jack Kennedy busied himself with some thick reports on the state of the nation and the world, received a parade of guests, and relaxed in the sun and the surf when he found the time...