Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Urda Traenkee, a native of Germany who had recently come to Cambridge, was working near a heating oven in the lab when it exploded. She was killed instantly by glass fragments from the oven doors, hospital officials said...
...most wanted man in West Germany for the past 20 years has been Reinhard Gehlen, the shadowy chief of West German intelligence, whom the Communists honored with a standing offer of $250,000 to anyone who could kill him. An assassin almost collected in 1953, but the bullet-resistant glass in Gehlen's Mercedes deflected the revolver slugs. That was the closest the Communists came, for Gehlen was a furtive quarry. He allowed no pictures to be taken (the only postwar photograph of him was a sneak shot taken in 1957), traveled under aliases, continually switched the license plates...
...Brubeck has abandoned his quartet. After 16 years spent in demonstrating that jazz can be for the mind as well as the emotions, Brubeck (TIME cover, Nov. 8, 1954) decided to cut down on performing and devote more time to composing. Last week he sat in the Wilton, Conn., glass-and-stone house that he built four years ago, tinkering with final revisions on the first fruits of his lei sure-a 63-minute oratorio, The Light in the Wilderness, an impressively imaginative step into the realm of large-scale serious composition...
...wear. British European Airways put on extra flights, and Air France switched from 90-seat Caravelles to 180-seat Boeing 707 jets to help carry the bargain hunters. Harrods, the elegant Knightsbridge store, experienced a run on "everything English"-Liberty prints, fabrics, scarves, china and glass. Said Managing Director Alfred Spence: "We have known nothing like it in 50 years. Sales...
...reflect on past glories for five minutes each year, then forget it." Goodyear's firsts include the rayon cord tire in 1938, the nylon cord in 1947 and the polyester cord in 1962. Last week the company's latest creation was introduced: a polyester and fiber-glass tire, which will be sold as a replacement for original equipment tires and is said by the company to have twice their lifetime. More expensive than the originals ($51 v. $34), the "Polyglas" brand will hit the market at the time tire replacements are being sought for cars acquired during...