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...Everything was as bare as it could be," he recalls. "My medicines came in little boxes. I would construct pueblo villages out of them." On Saturdays Tony's father took him to the factory, and the boy could hardly tear himself away from its airy, oily expanses, its machinery and materials. "There's no question," says he, "but that there's a direct connection between the factory, my little house, and my approach to sculpture...
Satisfied Customers. Besides having expert engineering, Bufete stands ready to choose a plant location, procure equipment, materials and accessories to go into the building, construct it and help start the plant operation. The organization will even help clients find financing. Says Mendoza: "All of this is the American concept-and it works...
...Administration had had the option to build no ABM system at all, or to construct either the thin shield, aimed at blunting a strike from Peking, or a "thick" shield, designed to cope with an all-out onslaught from Moscow. As usual, Lyndon Johnson staked out the middle ground, and, as usual, he and McNamara came under crossfire from both flanks...
Scarfe started by sketching Ringo at the drummer's London suburban home, raced back to his Thames-side studio to construct a likeness on a wire frame with papier-mâché made of old newspapers soaked in paste. He followed the same process for all four. The figures are life-sized head-and-torso, with paper-and-glue eyeballs inserted from the rear of the framework, hair made of scissor-fringed strips of the London Daily Mail, and a final facial of thin paste and watercolor. Each unclad figure took two days to build...
Sand-Table Practice. The arrival of the Americans intensified the Viet Cong penchant for rehearsing every attack in advance. Sand-table models of fortresses are used to brief each man on his mission. Sometimes a unit will go off into the deep jungle and construct a full-size replica of a critical