Word: half
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...called because it has neither guidance equipment nor complicated fuel pumps and plumbing). A Nerva nuclear engine, which will be used only after a rocket has left the atmosphere, is being test-fired at Jackass Flats, Nev. When perfected, the engines could generate 75,000 Ibs. of thrust with half the fuel that a conventional rocket would...
During his lifetime, Constable painstakingly built his reputation on half-a-dozen large, carefully organized "studio" pictures that he showed at the annual exhibitions of Britain's stuffy Royal Academy. To please contemporary taste, these pictures usually centered on some narrative incident, such as a white horse being ferried across the Stour. But many of the works on view are preliminary oil sketches and studies. Some critics argue that these quick sketches have a freshness and spontaneity that were lost in the labor of producing the larger final pictures...
...Snow. Half a century before the Impressionists, Constable was fascinated by the effects of light-in particular, light that came from his beloved and changeable English sky. His ambition, he said, was to "give one moment caught from fleeting time a lasting and sober existence." In his sketches are dozens of studies of clouds. He strove to capture the sparkling play of light on leaves, grass and stones. To achieve this, he daubed little blobs of white and color onto his canvases, making no attempt to blend them-as can be seen in his enchanting little study of Rushes...
...mushroom-picking expeditions and visits to the banya, the traditional Russian bathhouse built in czarist times and still found in many districts. It may or may not be kulturnost, but a visit to the banya's steam rooms, barbers and masseurs is a ritual that can take half a day and restore the soul...
...rated series, half were CBS's. The ranking: 1) Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (NBC), 2) Corner Pyle -U.S.M.C. (CBS), 3) Bonanza (NBC), 4) Mayberry R.F.D. (CBS), 5) Family Affair (CBS), 6) Gunsmoke (CBS), 7) Julia (NBC), 8) Dean Martin (NBC), 9) Here's Lucy (CBS), 10) Beverly Hillbillies...