Word: acidity
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AFFAIRS AT STATE, by Henry Serrano Villard. An eminent career diplomat about to retire from the corps as Ambassador to Mauretania writes an acid lament for the lost art of diplomacy. His arguments are bitter: career men are undermined by rich, gauche political appointees; the meddlesome, myopic State Department has almost bankrupted the prestige of the U.S. ambassador...
...difficult to produce. Dr. Rinkel thinks it possible that much of the black market supply is imported from Italy, where the basic component, lycurgic acid, is made. All of the Harvard students under his care mentioned that LSD is easily obtainable in Harvard Square, a fact confirmed by several students from other colleges...
...Acid Bath. Once Costantini has a drawing or plaster model in hand, he seeks out the glass blower he feels particularly suited to the work. "We drink a glass of wine and talk," he says, "then another glass of wine and talk some more." Costantini selects the colors, and the tortuous work of blowing and shaping begins. For Ernst's tall, reddish-brown Poet, topped by a sharp-beaked head with a hole for an eye, the glassworker at some stages had the equivalent of a 100-lb. weight at the end of his long metal blowpipe. Le Corbusier...
...must approve it), one for himself (to sell when the price is right), one for Collector Peggy Guggenheim, an early benefactress of the project. Then he adds his finishing touches. To give a wizened patina to Picasso's sprightly nymphs and fauns, he dipped the little people in acid baths. Now their skins look aged and lived...
...industrial level, the pressure of price rises is, if anything, even greater. There have been recent price increases for copper, brass, tin, 20% of all steel products, and such basic industrial chemicals as sulphuric acid and alum. A 5% price hike by a major maker of machine tools is expected to be followed by others. Textiles are more expensive than a few months ago, and so are electric tape and heating oil. Last week three more producers increased the price of containers-historically a leading indicator of general price movements...