Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President. Washington. D.C. was "dazzling with pink cherry and magnolia blossoms, and deluged with tourists. One morning nearly 10,000 visitors queued up to tour the White House. Along the black iron White House fence 37 women, mainly suburban housewives, chained themselves in protest against the Viet Nam War. Peace marchers are about to descend on Washington en masse (see following story), but the city seems unperturbed. On the Capitol lawn, a group of Democratic presidential hopefuls, including Senators Birch Bayh of Indiana. Henry Jackson of Washington, and Harold Hughes of Iowa, startled passers-by as they sat down...
...distinguished from an anarchist politics ). Petri shifts rapidly between shots of rich chaos and those of extremely centralist organization, both invested with a dazzling immediacy. On the one hand he presents vast spatial compositions of dramatic confusion-interrogation theatres, modernist offices often shot through glass. Venetian blinds, bars, iron grates, cocktail glasses-creating an atmosphere of energetic but menaced licentiousness. On the other hand he devastates his defenseless audience with huge, authoritarian close-ups and compositions organized metonymically, transforming objects, into fetishes, frozen fascinations that dominate the image...
Some of the veterans testimony concerned Operation Cedar Falls, during which about 40 square miles of the so-called Iron Triangle in Vietnam were cleared of "enemy" forces by bombing, artillery and infantry attacks. A former lieutenant in a unit that participated in Operation Junction City said that orders for the operation were that "villages, hamlets or any other signs of life were to be completely destroyed...
...million in the early '60s for rights to the engine, spent seven years and $20 million improving its performance. The most crucial problem, devising a tight but long-lasting seal at the three apexes of the rotor, was solved by substituting a carbon alloy for the cast-iron tip used in German models. The original Wankel engines belched clouds of smoke, so Toyo Kogyo built a 40-lb. "thermal-reactor" afterburner to oxidize the exhaust and attached a dozen more antipollution devices to the engine. As a result, says Jiro Morikawa. president of Mazda Motors of America, the Japanese...
...beauteous granddaughter, Arabella Churchill, 21, said that she would be delighted to be Azalea Queen No. 18. But last week the festival made public a letter from Arabella saying she had been reading up on NATO and had decided against azaleas. "My Grandfather used the phrase 'The Iron Curtain,' " she wrote. "It seems to be that what is facing us all now is the final curtain. The defence systems of the great powers are mutually infectious . . . and committed to ever-increasing growth and intensification...