Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bitter Berliners. What it has meant over the past weeks is a breathtaking display of cliff-walking by der Alte, as he alternately flirted with the potent Socialists and with the Free Democrats to find a workable coalition. What finally emerged was a 21-man Cabinet in which most of the top men, such as Economics Minister Erhard, Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder and Special Affairs Minister Heinrich Krone, retained their old jobs. It is a Cabinet somewhat younger than the previous one, and more conservative...
Last year the Crimson basketball varsity opened its season against a classy Williams five in a contest that set the tone for a dismal and frustrating Harvard season. The Crimson blew a 16-point lead and dropped a cliff-hanger in the final seconds of play...
Defying the Experts. Cliff Garrett is a volatile, heavy-handed manager who likes to say that he built his company "on thin air." After aeronautic experts told him in the 1930s that men could never fly in the rarefied atmosphere above 12,000 ft., he profitably proved that they could-in his pressurized cabins. He also defied the medical experts who told him after a stroke three years ago that he would never walk again. Today he tramps truculently over his 20-acre plant, snapping orders and picking at details...
Starting out in 1926 as a 50?-an-hour stockroom clerk at Lockheed Aircraft, Seattle-born Cliff Garrett soon realized that if planes were to fly faster and farther, they must also fly higher. He launched a small aircraft toolmaking company, hired engineers to experiment with pressurization. The Army Air Corps laughed off Garrett's far-out ideas. With the outbreak of World War II the chuckles turned to intense interest...
...technique as the Chinese, and no instrument of art has ever been devised as sensitive as the Chinese brush. In calligraphy, no matter how many kinds of strokes convention demanded, each had to be perfect. According to one convention, "a dot should resemble a rock falling from a high cliff. A horizontal stroke should resemble a formation of cloud stretching 1,000 miles. A vertical stroke should resemble a dried vine stem a myriad years old." It is one of the virtues of the collection that there is such an emphasis on calligraphy, for the calligrapher...