Word: fasteners
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...peace ("There was no Wall under President Eisenhower"), prestige ("an alltime low"), progress ("progress all right-but in the wrong direction"), party support ("On the satellite bill, nobody from the President's own party would stand up and defend him"), and purpose ("Democrats are hungry for power to fasten more control on farmers and businessmen...
...which clutter up many of their piazzas. The naked use of common industrial methods to produce sculpture has stripped away much of the mystery of the craft, has humanized what had been before a less than generally appreciated art form. Last week an ironmonger who had been hired to fasten steel straps around the bases of several statues said confidently: "I think I'll make some sculptures myself...
Besides wiping out the inflationary habit of thought that had kept the stock market buoyed up, Kennedy's victory over Big Steel profoundly undercut the business community's confidence in the future, provoked widespread fears that the President intended to fasten de facto controls on prices and profits. The intensity of this feeling was reflected this week at the annual meeting of the American Iron and Steel Institute in Manhattan, where Pittsburgh Steel's President Allison R. Maxwell Jr. bitterly accused Kennedy of heading "toward a form of socialism in which the pretense of private property...
...Ballet Set to Jazz. Like so many other young men in the arts, he plunged into experiment. "I'd cut things out of pressed wood and fasten bolts and locks onto them. In New Mexico I painted tin cans in a more or less naturalistic way-that was a gesture against the romantic idea of natural beauty. And on the docks in Gloucester, I remember doing a collage with pieces of cotton and a button sewed on the canvas and a piece of tin." Finally, in 1927, he "nailed a rubber glove, an electric fan and an egg beater...
...rillat was all but born to his crown. His mother used to ski back and forth between La Clusaz and her family's Alpine farmhouse; his father ran a La Clusaz ski lift. At four, Guy got his first pair of skis for Christmas. Even before he could fasten them on by himself, he could use them well enough to tackle the steepest and most treacherous slopes. From the start, he aimed at becoming a champion. Recalls one townsman: "Guy seemed to realize even before he could reason that he would have to strengthen his body. When...