Word: hand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took the opposite view. In most cities, newspaper reports of the Surgeon General's letter omitted the point that prompt treatment would forestall permanent damage. To Craig, that fact meant that Mace, properly used, was now clearly the safest weapon in his arsenal and "the first feasible nonlethal hand weapon since the caveman invented the wooden club...
Paradoxically, the very directness of Morris' sculptures is what flummoxes gallery goers. If they follow his advice not to explore the work, they will shrug and leave. If, on the other hand, they ignore him and study the work, they will find it witty, ironic, subtly allusive. One lady collector recalls that, when her companion strolled toward one of Morris' grey Fiberglas doorshapes in a gallery, she suddenly felt compelled to call out "Stop." "I don't know why," she says, laughing nervously, "but it was almost like a man violating a woman." She has since bought...
...impressive objects is a brass figurine from Orissa; it shows the hero Krishna trying to deceive one of his admirers by assuming the head of a peacock, the body of a tiger, the hump of a camel, one leg of an elephant, one leg of a horse, and one hand of a girl holding a flower. The devotee, says the legend, saw through the disguise...
...into Pan American World Airways, the world's largest international airline. Last week in Manhattan, when Trippe, now 68, finally bowed out as Pan Am's boss, it seemed altogether fitting that Lindbergh, long a Pan Am technical consultant and now one of its directors, was on hand for the occasion...
...over Pan Am's annual shareholders meeting, barely 24 hours after the airline's other top brass first got the word themselves, he casually dropped the news at the end of a 45-minute speech on company finances. When 62-year-old President Harold E. Gray, his hand-picked successor as Pan Am's chairman and chief executive officer, began to praise him, Trippe abruptly ruled him out of order. Sighed Gray: "I seldom defy the boss...