Word: feathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what if the alternate to mass feather bedding is mass unemployment? In both the newspaper, shipping and railroads, technological progress is not creating jobs while it obviates them. Nor will railroad jobs be opening up twenty years hence. The fact is that automation renders certain jobs and skills extraneous, and just a handful of growth industries (chemicals, electronics, book publishing) are expanding at a rate broad enough to offset the modernization lay-offs...
Sparkling Jewel. Pickering gave lots of rope, but no one got entangled in it, and the first Mariner was produced on schedule. It was a strange and beautiful object, worthy to be displayed like expensive jewelry against a black velvet background. Its feather-light tubular framework was brightly polished aluminum; parts made of magnesium were plated with yellow gold. Its solar panels were reddish purple, like wings of a giant butterfly, and gay little highlights sparkled all over its structure. Unseen in its golden hexagonal abdomen were electronic muscles, organs, brains and ganglia, woven together with hair-thin wire. Mariner...
There was humor, as in the brightly uniformed Captain Jinks, who once was in front of a cigar store. And there was a talent for caricature, as in the stubby statue of Henry Ward Beecher. A Carrousel Rooster scampers off to nowhere, each wooden feather in place. A copper lady of fashion, which once adorned a dressmaker's establishment, is a swirl of rhythm. Eagles, monkeys, cats, lions, woodchucks, hogs, pouter pigeons, turtles and horses make up a delightful menagerie that reported on the wind, beckoned to the thirsty, announced the presence of circuses, and symbolized the glory...
...cancer of the pancreas; in Manhattan. Son of a Belgian painter and a Bavarian brewer's daughter. Bemelmans worked as a hotel waiter, opened his own restaurant, became a bon vivant and peopled his books and canvases with epileptic Ecuadorian generals, French jewel thieves. American ladies in feather boas, and a Parisian moppet named Madeline. "The purpose of art," he once said, "is to console and amuse-myself, and, I hope, others...
...Studebaker's Larks and Hawks have undergone only minor feather trimming. The only really new model is a Lark station wagon, the Wagonaire, which has a sliding metal roof that telescopes forward to expose the rear seats...