Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...universal No. 1 spot, even the huge May Day tempera portraits of Kremlin leaders on display all over Moscow last week were in a rare random sequence, indicating that local committees either were hideously confused or had been told to post them in any order they saw fit. Well aware of the outside world's careful scrutiny, the Kremlin seems determined to give nothing away in what is no doubt a genuine balancing act, for the time being at least, among the quiet men who have followed the ebullient Nikita...
...First to fit all the new techniques together was Bell Telephone Laboratories, which built Telstar I, and had it launched at its own expense in July 1962. Circling in a comparatively low elliptical orbit, 600 to 3,500 miles above the earth, Telstar was a striking success; it relayed the first live TV picture (a view of the American flag) across the Atlantic to receiving stations in England and France. Telephone talk over Telstar was as clear as if the speakers were only blocks apart...
Architects Collaborative, commissioned to supervise the current renovation of Emerson Hall, have informed the University that a larger-than-life-size bronze statue of Emerson does not "fit in with the plans" for a "functional and attractive" first-floor hall...
...collection, Justin Thannhauser recently decided to bequeath the majority of his works to Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. His reasoning: "My collection complements the museum's." Placed on exhibition last week in newly opened galleries off the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed spiral rotunda, Thannhauser's paintings fit so well into the museum's formerly limited collection that in one stroke they make the Guggenheim a historical showcase of modern...
...stopped abruptly. Like some great bear trap, his mind had snapped into action. "Of course! the Bronze Rhinoceros is a nickname!" Just at that moment Bundle looked up and saw an immense dark--skinned man lumber down the University Hall steps. All at once the jig-saw pieces fit together, and Bundie knew he was right. He dashed behind the building and cautiously peered around the corner...