Word: cementation
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...probably the oldest of the arts, but in the first half of the 20th century, sculptors have scooted off in more new directions than they ever dreamed of in all the centuries before. While sculptors still chip away at stone with chisels, they also twist bits of wire, cement boulders together, and fire away at sheet metal with the blowtorch. In Manhattan last week the variety of sculpture on view ranged from the traditional figures of Rodin to the mobiles of Alexander Calder, and included a broad cross section of contemporary artists. Among them...
...more concessions to Israel at this point would estrange the moderate Arab opinion that the new U.S. Middle East policy is trying to foster. Nasser was already systematically slowing down the work of clearing the Suez Canal. Last week, after U.N. salvage vessels finally raised and towed the cement-filled hulk Akka out of the main channel, the Egyptians continued to dawdle about removing explosives from the wrecked tug Edgar Bonnet, and thus effectively kept the ditch plugged. The U.S., however, was concerned less about Nasser's blackmail than about other Arab opinion...
...reason for the sought-after economic flexibility is the crisis in the satellites. Pervukhin ordered new efforts to be made in coal, fuel and cement production in western Russia, to compensate for deliveries no longer coming from Poland and Hungary. Another reason is the need for a new approach to the problem of defense. The declaration that the 1957 defense appropriation is $24 billion (down 5.6% from 1956) was an obvious attempt to invite comparison with the U.S. defense budget (estimated for 1957 at $41 billion). Actually, there has been no reduction in the Soviet's armed forces...
...Supreme Soviet assembled, the state of the Soviet Union was newsworthy but not very happy. The U.S.S.R. annual economic report, while claiming an 11% increase in industrial output, listed some serious deficiencies: capital investment was down 6%, and coal, iron, cement, glass, some machine tools and much farm machinery fell short of set goals. More important, from the viewpoint of the elite, dwelling construction fell short of aims by 30 million sq. ft. The same economic report told of a 20% increase in the 1956 grain harvest, mainly due to heavy plantings in the Siberian "virgin lands...
...dogs and freshmen who disappear with a slow, sinking motion. But after a while the mud dries and green grass begins to grow. Now grass isn't innately evil either, except for its color. The green of the grass in the Yard clashes with the green cement in front of Sever Hall. Green cement is far more goodthan green grass as it lasts all year round and starves ugly worms. So it is to be hoped than the Administration will act now, before this warmish weather goes too far and that despicable green grass begins to grow. It should cart...