Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SCULPTORS GUILD-Lever House, Park Ave. at 53rd St. Sixty-six samples of U.S. sculpture in a variety of materials; charred fir, laminated marble, aluminum epoxy, sassafras root, sheet copper, concrete and stained glass are a few. De Creeft, Epping, Gross, Nevelson, Zorach are among the sculptors. Through...
Only at rare intervals, though, did Explorer XVI collide with anything bigger than a microscopic bit of cosmic dust. There were 44 meteoroids that succeeded in penetrating a sheet of beryllium-copper one-thousandth of an inch thick, which is slightly thicker than household aluminum foil. The most powerful meteoroid encountered knocked a tiny hole in stainless steel three-thousandths of an inch thick. Metal as thick as the wall of a beer can went unpunctured. NASA's tentative conclusion is that the plentiful meteoroids are too small to do harm, and the dangerous ones...
...Harvard Lampoon published a little book about itself, the first chapter of which described the Lampoon building in some detail. "The roof of the tower," it said, "is capped by a fantastic copper finial which terminates in a large and meditative Ibis...
Since December, 1961, when villains made their way to the top of the building, however, the tower has been capped by a fantastic copper finial which terminates in the claw and lower portion of the leg of an Ibis. Presumably, the change was effected with some diabolical cutting tool...
Died. Anna Evangeline La Chappelle Clark, 85, widow of Montana Copper King William Andrews Clark, a Michigan doctor's daughter who became Clark's ward at the height of his fame, married him in 1901 after his first wife died (he was 62), moved into his $6,000,000 Fifth Avenue mansion (121 rooms, 31 baths), after his death in 1925 (leaving a $50 million estate) sold the house to spend much of her time in California, where she founded the Paganini Quartet and equipped it with Paganini's own Stradivariuses at a cost...