Word: fastens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jouncing along in turbulent air at 28,000 ft., the Paris-to-Rome Caravelle jet flew into a vicious downdraft over the Apuane Alps, plummeted sickeningly before the pilot regained control. A stewardess was knocked unconscious and six passengers who had failed to fasten their seat belts were battered against the bulkhead. Among the most seriously injured: Italian Movie Producer Carlo Ponti, 48, husband-in-fact (if not by law) of Cinemactress Sophia Loren, 28, whose badly cut right ear required 14 emergency stitches and 45 extra ones in plastic surgery. "Frightening," said Ponti, his head turbaned in bandages. "Luckily...
...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...