Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...machines of the 1940s, and particularly the atom bomb, in Hulten's opinion, helped to turn artists away in disgust from technological subject matter. But by the late 1950s, the machine was beginning to attract a new following. This postwar generation could treat a machine with easy familiarity. Claes Oldenburg's liquidly drooping Giant Soft Fan is, among other things, a gently nostalgic evocation of times past -since, after all, air conditioning is more common nowadays. Jean Tinguely's joyous black Rotozaza, No. 1 tosses out colored balls and then sucks them back in again, a mystifying...
...SUBMARINES. When the Democrats assumed power, the U.S. had 14 nuclear subs, the Russians none. Today the U.S. fleet has 76 atom-fueled submarines and the Soviet Union...
Died. Lise Meitner, 89, Austrian-born nuclear physicist, whose basic research was vital to the development of the atomic bomb; in Cambridge, England. In 1938, after three decades of pioneering work in radioactivity with Chemist Otto Hahn at Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Lise, a Jew, was forced to flee to Sweden-just when she and Hahn were on the verge of achieving nuclear fission. When Hahn sent her the details of his experiments with uranium some months later, she completed the immensely complex mathematical calculations proving that he had indeed split the atom and, in the process, released...
...girl who knows she isn't getting any younger. As a result, the affair had a certain cozy credibility. On Broadway, these roles are played by Jason Robards and Diana Sands. Looking like a crestfallen road-show narrator for Our Town, Robards doesn't indicate that an atom of sex is dancing in his head. Sleek, sassy Diana Sands seems about as vulnerable as a Navy destroyer with guns blazing. They act together as if they had never met, let alone shared...
Similar joint ventures have been set up in dozens of other cities. E.G. & G., the company that triggers atom-bomb blasts for the Atomic Energy Commission, has a Negro-managed subsidiary that is building a metal-fabricating plant in Boston's Roxbury Negro district. In San Francisco, Safeway Stores has rescued a ghetto cooperative supermarket from the brink of bankruptcy, even though the store competes with a Safeway outlet ten blocks away...