Word: handly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrow is impressive, as is the "freestyle" record of 937.13, done with a foot-held bow [Aug. 31]. The latter distance probably exceeds the best done by the Turks in the 15th and 16th centuries, but it must be remembered that all Turkish shooting was done with a hand-held bow. That the Turks were claiming distances approaching 1,000 yds. is, to the best of my knowledge, inaccurate. They measured their distances in a unit called guz, the exact value of which can only be approximated; my conclusion is that 24½ in. for the guz is probably close...
...technical training. Since then, the U.S. has contributed $5,000,000 to the U.N. Special Fund. Lodge now believes that this U.N. Special Fund is the logical mechanism for U.S.-U.S.S.R. cooperation in foreign aid, if Khrushchev is interested in Eisenhower's new initiative. Says one U.S. hand at the U.N.: "It would be a good thing if both the U.S. and the Soviets decided to get into the Special Fund in a bigger...
...store. And in Haile Selassie I Square, Volkswagens and Fords jostle for position in daily traffic jams, unheard of a few years ago. But outside Addis Ababa, 90% of Ethiopia's people are illiterate farmers, some of whom still live in a barter economy where 2 Ibs. of hand-picked wild coffee will fetch one fingernail's worth of nail polish. As a result of these feudal economics, 180 million acres of the world's richest farm land lie fallow in Ethiopia, despite periodic famines and a growing trade deficit. Foreign aid at best merely sugarcoats Ethiopia...
...years, teachers have beseeched parents to lend a hand in schools. Lexington, Mass. has found a way to put them to work. Last week, when Art Teacher Paul Ciano wanted technical advice, all he had to do was flip open a fat new directory of citizen volunteers. He picked out a professional painter, a package designer and an M.I.T. professor of sculpture-all enrolled in a unique campaign to prod outside talent into the town's classrooms...
Nijinsky's Complaint. No point of style or appearance was too small for his attention. His friend, famed Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, once complained that Salzedo did not make enough show with his hand movements. A harpist's hands should be like a dancer's toes, said Nijinsky: "Of all the instrumentalists, you are the one to be looked at when you play." Salzedo formalized hand movements into a series of flowing gestures, tells his students to emphasize esthetic as well as musical qualities. Says he: "Good looks are an important requisite for an aspiring harpist...