Word: colorings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate's first space committee, the first Democratic and Republican attempts to stake political claims on space-and a full-throttle U.S. Army drive to exploit its satellite success after months of telling itself that it was the Pentagon's stepchild. Army brass marched with a color guard into a Capitol Hill hearing room to present a new service flag to the House Military Appropriations Subcommittee. Patrols of Army public-relations officers prowled Pentagon corridors, passing out word that, given the chance, the Army could develop a rocket motor to put a 15-ton satellite into space with...
...feats of art sleuthing by X ray is reported by John Walker, director of Washington's , National Gallery, in his book, Bellini and Titian at Ferrara (Phaidon; $6.50). Sleuth Walker tackled one of the world's great masterpieces, Giovanni Bellini's Feast of the Gods (see color page), now at the National Gallery, managed to prove through X rays what no scholar could hope to do with the naked...
Spillane fans, used to getting their sex right out of Gray's Anatomy, will have to settle for shots of Hammer emerging messily from off-camera, off-color encounters with negligeed women. But the other Spillane requisites that have sold close to 30 million copies of his seven novels are preserved: furious action, a complex plot, a wow finish. Still, Spillane wants no part of the new series except his fee ($25,000 and a cut of the receipts). "The real Mike Hammer sits back and laughs at his own show," he laughs, sitting back. "How about that! Sits...
...private flying. Instead of designing planes for pleasure, the industry designs them for work. "Utility" is the new watchword. With rugged aircraft to match every purpose and pocketbook, the industry has made it highly profitable for many a company-and thousands of individuals-to take to the air (see color pages). Big farmers and ranchers, such as Idaho's R. J. Simplot, who needs three planes to supervise his many farming operations and other interests, are learning that they cannot get along without planes. Using them to patrol fences, herd cattle, seed wheat or spray cotton, U.S. farmers...
There are those who like history and those who like novels; both classes of readers are apt to be depressed by historical novels. This form of literature, which requires a strict convention of disbelief, is perfectly exemplified in The Winthrop Woman, a bulging package of period color, religion, sex, sadism and witchcraft. It is written in what can only be called Williamsburg prose-the settings and costumes are as authentic as money and research can buy, and if the hands and heads that stick through the quaint old collars and cuffs are stuffed with straw, there will be no complaints...