Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lost planet there was no water, so the glass on its surface survived until the final breakup. Then chunks of it sailed around the solar system along with chunks of metal and rock. When they hit the earth's atmosphere, the glass shattered into small fragments as soon as it began to get hot. The fragments fell to earth as tektites. When a fragment had the right shape to keep it from tumbling as it moved through the air, the molten glass that was wiped off the forward end frequently solidified as "wings" or an "apron" attached...
...loss to say. The Russians, back in their refurbished Muscovite pavilion for the first time since 1932, drew the biggest crowds. But the official, Stalin-period art (stocky peasant girls laughingly sheafing wheat) soon drove them away. The U.S. exhibit (TIME, June 18), which collected no prizes, was a hit, mainly because it stuck to one theme: "The City.'' Best that could be said: the Biennale was immense...
...mobile efforts were rated inferior to those by U.S. Sculptor Alexander Calder and whose welded sculpture ran second place to Britain's Reg Butler. This year Chadwick (who works mostly in iron) moved into the lead with his 19 angular, spiky sculptures that came close to being the hit of the Biennale. One of the most discussed works: Inner Eye (see cut), a 7-ft. iron structure with a quartz crystal gripped on spiked arms. It looked alarmingly like a radar man from Mars...
Tell Me Why (Gale Storm; Dot). One of those concoctions that bear the inscrutable features of a hit. This one may have a pretty tune−with words about the mysteries of loving and leaving−but a listener would never know; Songstress Storm's voice skitters around it, slides under it, swoops past it, does everything but sing it straight...
Automobile production in 1956 was figured to hit 6,000,000, down 1,900,000 from last year, but a total that would still make it the fourth best year. The Commerce Department foresaw farm machinery continuing downhill during the second half; "sales this year will probably be 15% to 20% below 1955." And textiles were threading through "an in-between year−not as good...