Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strange caravan stopped in Beirut last week to refresh itself after eight long months on the road. On July 11, a party of 101 Americans had moved out of Cape Town in a wagon train of 41 aluminum trailers and 41 pastel-colored trucks. They had zigzagged over desert, through jungle and swamp, and it was obvious that where-ever they went, the natives-the black miners of the South, the willowy Watutsis, the squat Pygmies, the haughty Moslems of the North-had never seen anything quite like them. The adults among the travelers were all retired, and their ages...
Then a mighty roar went up, and there came Tom Mboya on the shoulders of his excited supporters. Around his shoulders was a black skin cape. The sleepy eyes danced with pleasure, and a grin split the gleaming, satin-smooth black face...
Much in demand as a designer of exhibitions, books, and animated murals in stained glass for commercial buildings, Kepes reserves his best hours for painting of the stillest sort, often at the studio of his house in Wellfleet, Cape Cod. He coats each large canvas with thin color, then drips onto it what appear to be blobs, twigs and trailings of plastic glue. Onto the glue he drips sand from the beach. Then he works in gobs of bright color with a palette knife, and finally glazes over most of the picture with more thin sheets of color. The results...
Once safe in space, a missile or satellite is hard to find (see above). But when it is first launched, its booster looses an enormous amount of heat that shines far out into space as a blaze of infrared radiation. At Cape Canaveral last week the U.S. attempted to launch its first reconnaissance satellite designed to take advantage of this fact. Called Midas (from Missile Defense Alarm System), the satellite carried infrared detectors, which will pick up a missile's hot exhaust trail as it rises above the hazy, moisture-laden lower atmosphere. From a satellite on a high...
...only a rustle, but the African "wind of change," of which Britain's Harold Macmillan warned South Africans at Cape Town three weeks ago, seems to be penetrating at last into the bristling laager of the long-embattled Boers...