Word: davids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Developed by the David Clark Co. of Worcester, Mass., the suit has a loose outside layer of shiny, aluminized fabric to protect the inner layers and to reflect solar or A-bomb heat. Inside is a coverall of special, airproofed nylon material carefully fitted to the individual wearer's body. In its normal, pressureless state, it is flexible and reasonably comfortable (see cut). Cold air or oxygen can be pumped through it to cool the pilot if his cabin gets...
...rest of us." The opening show put the viewer's eye to microscopes that revealed viruses and, through time-lapse photography, a human cell mushrooming with cancer. It also presented a primer on oceanography and, in the best segment, an exclusive filmed report of Air Force Major David Simons' 20-mile balloon ascent, capturing some of the suspense and loneliness of his mission. The show made a promising start in a major TV project, though its promise somewhat outstripped its performance. Like Walt Disney's learned japery (see below), Conquest's science reporting avoided condescension...
...satellite in the form of art. Symbolically enough, his last completed picture was of a baby holding a Russian satellite. He was buried with much honor, but naturally no church rites, in Mexico's Rotunda of Illustrious Men. While Mexican Communists paraded the hammer and sickle. Fellow Painter David Siqueiros made the chief oration, larding it with Communist mouthings. "Even here," cried one of Rivera's daughters, Guadalupe, "you make your propaganda!" "Yes," Siqueiros answered. "Just as Diego...
...older Ferguson boys, The Archers, was painted when Raeburn was only 31, but in its bold composition device and dramatic lighting it ranks with the best of his work. Allan Ramsay was another Scottish painter, whose paintings managed to catch the character of his sitters so definitively that Philosopher David Hume commissioned him to paint the famed French writer-philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau, in his outlandish purple caftan and fur cap, while Rousseau was living in exile in London...
...ride out the storm last week. Capital President David H. Baker and Chairman J. H. ("Slim") Carmichael flew to London, hoping to stretch out payments on their Viscount fleet. In addition. Capital is economizing everywhere, may trim its 8,000-man payroll by 10%. Yet its main hope rests with CAB. Barring subsidy, it wants a healthy fare increase. Without it, Capital may eventually be forced to shut down or merge, possibly with Northwest Airlines...