Word: erector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NICOLAS SCHÖFFER, 53, a Hungarian-born Parisian, builds Erector set-like perforated grids, convex mirrors and metal latticework. He views these not as art works but rather as the medium to express his vision of "spatiodynamics." His largest work to date is his 170-ft.-tall computerized Cybernetic Tower in Belgium, which emits sounds of street noises mixed with electronic music. Other works blink, twinkle, and swathe the space around them with elusive illuminations, sometimes changing 300 times a second like whirling dervishes of light...
...hole in the ground. Above it, three tall thin towers poke toward the sky. From the towers' tips, cables string out to suspend a tangle of girders over the center of the bowl. The complete contraption looks like the product of some errant giant playing with an outsize Erector set. But at its dedication in the hills south of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, last week, the great scope was tuned and ready-a sharp and farseeing eye focused on the farthest reaches of the universe...
...liquid-fueled Corporal (range: 75 miles), with an erector-launcher truck, backbone of the Army's nuclear armory since 1956, used by eleven battalions in Western Europe and the U.S. It is now being replaced by the solid-fueled Sergeant (75 miles), which is easier to handle and has a guidance system that gives it immunity to any known electronic countermeasures applied by an enemy. »The truck-mounted Lacrosse (20 miles), designed especially for high-accuracy deployment against such targets as concrete pillboxes, bunkers and caves. It is controlled by a guidance station located near front lines that...
...Gilbert Co., whose long-beloved Erector Set has been updated to include rocket gantries and moon vehicles, has a flying model plane, the Skyflash. Its gasoline motor has a new type of silencer to reduce the hornet's-nest buzz, and its wings and fuselage are made of high-impact plastic, which is strong, flexible and shatterproof...
Among the U.S. products still standing watch over their good names, still demanding Upper-Case billing in news stories, novels and shopping columns: Erector Set, Band-Aid, Dixie cup, JellO, Jeep, Laundromat, Kleenex. Deepfreeze, Levi's (blue jeans). Dry Ice, Simoniz, Spray Net and Zipper...