Word: grid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proof. No print can do justice to paintings like Composition with Red and Blue (1939-41), for one of the startling characteristics of such work is its traditionalism as painting. Within the radical statement it makes, the warm, silky glow of the layered paint held in its finely adjusted grid is almost Vermeer-like...
...into the Gaza Strip was Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. "Gaza is more of a problem than a gift," said Dayan of the former Egyptian occupied territory, which stretches along the Mediterranean south and west of Israel. Events since then have proved him right. Israel connected Gaza to its electric grid, drummed up potential business and even encouraged tourism to aid the territory. But Gaza's 390,000 residents were-and still are-unremittingly hostile. So far this year seven Israelis and 206 Arabs have been killed in the Strip. Last week alone seven Arab guerrillas were shot to death...
Total System. Fuller prefers tapping the sun's "cosmically inexhaustible energy" or harnessing the tides, possibly in the Bay of Fundy. In addition, he would like to see all nations and continents hooked into a global energy grid, with electricity flowing efficiently across time zones to meet distant peak-hour demands. He envisions "a total-humanity sustaining system" that would decrease birthrates and increase longevity. In short, Fuller's poetic excursion was mind expanding, if not mind exploding...
Walters dipped the Cobra's nose and rolled out to the northwest. A set of scrambled alphabet letters came in over the T.O.C. radio, and Hayden pulled out his "Whiz Wheel" decoder to decipher the grid coordinates of his mission. As their chopper raced over the bomb-pocked Laotian countryside, a second Cobra pulled up alongside. Twenty minutes later, the Cobras arrived over a scene of total chaos. As Hayden and Walters carved circles in the sky several thousand feet above the fire-scarred hilltop, they watched errant rockets from choppers already on the scene blazing into friendly...
Died. Dr. Barry Wood, 60, onetime grid star and noted bacteriologist; of a heart attack; in Boston. Wood was one of the first to publish a paper on penicillin. Later he led in research on the mechanism by which white blood cells fight invading organisms. Wood was named vice president of Johns Hopkins University and hospital in 1955, heading its department of microbiology from 1959 until his death. He was to have received the Kober award, the Association of American Physicians' highest tribute...