Word: boons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the war, Kroyer plunged into candymaking-a short-lived venture that produced a long-term boon. Because of the sugar shortage, he had to come up with a cheap way of making glucose, and his process has since become standard in 52 plants around the world. That made Kroyer's reputation and gave him a top tinkerer's prerogative: he could practice his wizardry on demand, rather than out of desperation. More often than not, he says, "my inventions have been made because somebody came and asked me to make them...
Died. H. H. (for Hsiang-hsi) Kung, 86, Nationalist Chinese banker politician who became brother-in-law to Ge eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek when he married into the powerful Soong banking family, as Finance Minister from 1933 to 1945 introduced the boon of standardized paper currency, but during his premiership (1939-45) was helpless against the war-wrought inflation that left China sliding toward bankruptcy, after which he was eased into honorary jobs and retirement in the U.S.; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...scars do not differ markedly in number from those on the earth-oriented face. They only seem fresher and more numerous because the far side has not undergone the vast, more recent flooding of dark, possibly volcanic, material so evident on the near side. The disparity should prove a boon to scientists, since the result is that the moon's early history is that much more legible on the hidden side...
...hectic days Cambridge drivers have been experimenting with Harvard Square's new traffic circulation plan, but it is still unclear whether the new system will be a boon to motorist or an invitation to even more congestion...
...Sonic Boon. Another chamber shows five screens arranged in the shape of a cross. In the most effective sequence, an African hunter peers out at the jungle, spear in hand, searching the waters for a crocodile. Around him the night seethes ominously. When at last he kills his quarry, the screens abruptly fill with white-eyed death masks that seem, for once, as terrifying to the viewer as they must be to the native. Labyrinth's narration is sometimes painfully portentous: "The hardest place to look is inside yourself, but that is where you will find the beast...