Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though they count on automated, and possibly underground, highways. McLuhan and others predict that both the wheel and the highway will be obsolete, giving way to hovercraft that ride on air. Planes carrying 1,000 passengers and flying just under the speed of sound will of course be old hat. The new thing will be transport by ballistic rocket, capable of reaching any place on earth in 40 minutes. In Rand's Delphi study, 82 scientists agreed that a permanent lunar base will have been established long before A.D. 2000 and that men will have flown past Venus...
...picking up the piano," he says, "I have become more and more conscientious. I have an enormous margin of unfinished business." He adds with a twinkle: "That's why I can still make at my age a great deal of progress." And there he goes, bright as a trill, hat cocked over an eye, Brahms and Mozart and Chopin singing in his head?off to play another concert...
...Rubinstein is not his gregarious, fun-loving self, it is in the hours before a concert. If he arrives early, he likes to watch television (he knows the plots of all the soap operas) or go to the movies?any movie. He will practice scales in thirds under his hat while he watches the film, and in the taxi later, he will drum out the right-hand portion of a Chopin etude. Back at the hotel room, as Nela Rubinstein fiddles nervously with her gold necklace, her husband will warm up a bit at the piano...
...fact, is not even nominally the top man. That hat belongs to Directory Chairman and Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu, 42, a brainy, sophisticated survivor of nearly every government since Diem, who provides a quiet balance to Ky's occasional impulsiveness. Of the line commanders, both the III Corps and the Capital Military Region are in the hands of generals born in North Viet Nam-and close friends of Ky. The Mekong Delta, or the IV Corps, is the domain of Major General Dan Van Quang, 36, a rough soldier whose girth and ready laughter have earned...
Died. Leonard Heinrich, 65, armor expert at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, who in 1941, after a Pentagon call for something better than the antiquated "tin hat" helmet, designed the low-slung M-4 "steel pot," used in World War II, Korea and now in Viet Nam; of a heart attack; in Clarksville...