Word: float
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oval that ranged from 109 miles to 139 miles above the earth, he dined on roast beef and chicken, manually operated the controls of his spacecraft. From the capsule, live television images were periodically flashed to Soviet viewers. Bykovsky waved his logbook, let his pencil and other objects float in the cabin to demonstrate weightlessness. On his fourth orbit, the cosmonaut talked directly to Khrushchev in the Kremlin. Not yet a full-fledged party member, Bykovsky said: "I want to be a Communist, a member of our great Leninist party...
...Aswan to handle the traffic; an Aswan-Abu Simbel service went into operation with hydrofoil launches, one of which sank this spring, drowning two Frenchwomen. Business boomed-and now it may go on and on. When Lake Nasser has filled its tremendous basin, tourists will be able to float to the temple door, where the huge statues of Ramses II, their saw wounds healed and inconspicuous, will be waiting to greet all visitors...
...advantage of this new dispensation was Paleface Sam Banowit, who trekked out from Chicago, took a look at the spring, and committed $1,000,000 to the proposition that the flow of water could be enlarged sufficiently for a public bathhouse. When the drilling yielded enough thermal stuff to float the Spanish Armada, Sam had the water filtered through 20 miles of pipes and stored underground, to be eventually released into outdoor and indoor immersion and swirlpool baths...
Raymond Parker's forms float like the volatile gasbags of a dirigible, separated by fractions of space, as if waiting to rub together in an explosive friction. Paul Brach sticks to an unseductive steely blue surface in which are scored circles and squares almost invisible to the eye. Miriam Schapiro, Brach's wife, shows a series of panels, similar in motif to Renaissance cassoni, or hope chests, in which she paints the fertility symbol of an egg. Over a three-year period, the egg forms grow more nebulous, less sensual, purer...
...proposition, of course, is the ultimate in economic feasibility. Use the Italian principle. But don't jack the temple up; simply float it up on buoyant tanks. For nothing more than the hell of it I'd be prepared to work out the physical concepts involved. JOHN R. BOWLES Chicago...