Word: designate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appears, moreover, that the Castro grand communization plan extends beyond the farm and city to the whole Cuban society. It calls for creation of the "New People" of Cuba, who will be tireless, combative and intellectual by design. Toward this end of changing man's nature, the Castro government has set up a test laboratory on the Isle of Pines-now renamed the Isle of Youth-where young volunteers go and live under a strictly supervised communal society, study and work in an economy nearly free of money. "We don't feel that Communism can be developed...
...adds more pieces; he has children and he adds more pieces-it goes upward, sideways, inward and downward." An unexpected guest arrives? Easy, says he: "You just pull out an extra bed, assemble it, and stick it to one of the boxes." In fact, Colombo's design may not even be futuristic any more. An Italian manufacturer plans to put his mono-home into production before the end of the year. Sale price for a basic one-room unit...
...finish their courses with out scraping a knuckle inside an automatic transmission (though 80% of U.S. cars are shiftless). One-half of all shop students in the U.S. are plugging away at home economics and agriculture-hardly critical crafts-while only 15% practice more pertinent skills such as industrial design, medical technology and visual communications. "I worked in the shops for four years," says one still-unemployed electronics graduate of The Bronx's Samuel Gompers Vocational and Technical High School. "I couldn't even get a job as an electrician's helper...
...banana, or admiring the unpeeled one. Or they can stoke Robert Watts's Stamp Machine with either nickels or dimes. (Having been removed from daily use to the higher realms of art in 1963, Watts has replaced its now outdated U.S. Government stamps with stamps of his own design.) They can strum the weird musical instruments of Francois and Bernard Baschet, but the atonal sounds evoked are far less controllable than those of the lowliest guitar. They can walk on Piero Gilardi's soft polyurethane carpet and be amazed when they do, for it is sculpted to look...
Adams nonetheless patented his battery in 1943. Then ten years later, the Army got a patent of its own-without a word to Adams-and ordered more than a million batteries built to its own design. Sure that he had been bilked, Bert went to court. Six other men, who had backed the invention, joined the suit. Not until 1966 did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that Bert's patent had indeed been infringed. Last February the lawyers involved agreed that the Government should pay $2,500,000 in damages...