Word: crystallize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mother with Crystal Ball. In 1936, in a bleak stone villa in London's suburban Kingston Hill, Farouk, a tall, trim boy of 16, got a long-distance call from Cairo. It was his mother, Queen Nazli. "My son," she sobbed, "you are King...
Returning Echoes. The heart of Ross's compact (150 Ib.) machine is a crystal of Rochelle salt† that converts electrical energy into pulses of "ultrasonic sound" (unlike radar, which uses radio frequencies). Focused into a narrow beam, the sound pulses are shot out through an underwater transmitter that can turn through 360°. Echoes from underwater objects come back to the transmitter and are displayed on one cathode-ray screen as part of a glowing map that measures distance and direction from the ship. Moving targets can be tracked across the scope as on an ordinary radar screen...
...decided to join the parade of other automakers asking for a boost on the basis of increased costs. With the new cost-of-living wage formula (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), higher costs and prices were in the wind. The Joint Committee on the Economic Report took a look in its crystal ball and predicted: "The pressures for higher prices [in the next two years] are not speculative but fundamental; [they] arise out of increases in basic costs and demand . . ." But last week, with many prices still softening, U.S. businessmen kept a wary eye on their buying and waited...
...year-old patriarch of Spanish art critics limped scornfully out of Madrid's baroque Crystal Palace. What shocked him, and many another Spaniard, was an exhibit of religious art from Roman Catholic mission fields. Traditionalist Spaniards looked with anger upon the freedom with which the faraway artists had rendered scantily clad Virgins, Chinese Holy Families, Indian Gods squatting Buddha-like-all dominated by a huge statue of Christ dressed as a sannyasi (Hindu ascetic) renouncing this world...
...Century eye, just as artful and integrated as the modern exhibit. An expansive corner window, partly screened by spun-glass curtains, is the main feature of the modern room, where useless bric-a-brac has been replaced by Steuben's simple ash trays and an unconscionable quantity of crystal drinking equipment...