Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planned impact point was 200 miles east of Bermuda, where an array of ships and aircraft waited anxiously. Down curved MA-4, trailing flames, its simulated astronaut stoically suffering 7.8 Gs of deceleration. The tough 6-ft. drogue chute opened first; then the main chute opened and lowered MA4 gently into the Atlantic, 161 miles east of Bermuda and only 39 miles off target. For a vehicle that had been traveling at 17,519 m.p.h., this was good shooting indeed. Aircraft spotted the capsule at once, and the destroyer Decatur raced to pick...
...room is dark, save for the rosy glow from the pilot light. On the broad panel-set roughly equidistant from two woofered and tweetered speaker assemblies in massive cabinets-is an array of switches, dials and knobs. This is not the cockpit of the X-15; it is a modern stereophonic rig. Tuner off. Amplifier on. Selector switch on RIAA. All niters out. Left volume control on #5. Right volume control on #5. Turntable spinning at 33⅓ r.p.m. A metal arm glides with feathery softness over the record. For the moment, the speakers are switched off. Instead, from...
...Medal at Milan's Triennale and a few months later got the coveted, U.S.-endowed Lunning Prize (it was Frederik Lunning who introduced Georg Jensen to the U.S.). Last week she had two shows running concurrently in the Museums of Fine Arts in Oslo and Copenhagen-a rich array of swirling and sparkling silver lightly sprinkled with semiprecious stones...
...Soviet Trade Fair in Tokyo's huge, domed exhibition hall on the Harumi waterfront. The fair was jammed with 9,000 examples of Soviet products, from tractors to Armenian rugs (cooed Armenia-born Mikoyan: "My mother used to make such rugs"). It was also outfitted with an artless array of Soviet propaganda, from pictures of Spacemen Gagarin and Titov to such slogans as "Soviet Union takes the lead in banning nuclear weapons," and "Hiroshima must not be repeated." Despite all this, the most popular spot in the hot, humid hall was a booth selling Coca Cola...
...runs a third-rate hock shop can be excused for taking a crabbed view of humanity. To his barred window, clutching their appalling array of tattered goods, come junkies, alkies, homosexuals, whores and pimps, as well as the faceless poor. Reflecting on his part in these endless, trivial transactions. Sol Nazerman, the Harlem pawnbroker, "became filled with the idea that he was building a tower of junk, struggling and draining himself to amass nothing . . . For him the core of life was there in all its reality: brutal, wretched, and grasping...