Word: kite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Posing as Benjamin Franklin, Vincent W. Chiang '88, also of Eliot House, decided to go fly a kite. "I liberated it from a tree, and now I'm trying to set it free again," Chiang said...
...mixing a bath of bamboo pulp magically raises a net-like sheet and suddenly has produced a single sheet of fresh white paper. An architect carves, without pattern, small pieces of wood which lock together without adhesive to form the outline of a model of elaborate Chinese architecture. A kite-maker chats animatedly with a Chinese friend about the strange American visitors she has experienced that day; all the while her hands file meticulously at the thin strips of wood which will flow in symmetric perfection as the body of vividly colored kites...
...traditional liberal-conservative split on the Cambridge City Council and School Committee between members of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and independents may be threatened by a third slate this fall. Daniel Crane, a local lawyer and son of the kite Edward Crane, long-time Cambridge mayor, has said that he may run for the 9-member governing body under a moderate pro business...
Says M.I.T. Engineering and Computer Professor Jack Ruina: "I would compare it to going right from the kite stage to the 747." Years further off is the X-ray laser, which would be "bomb pumped," or powered by an internal nuclear explosion. Still more problematic are particle-beam weapons, which would fire streams of atomic particles...
Then, when the eminent Americans forcibly pressed Augusta National for birdies, the rolling course fitfully responded with bogeys. Unwittingly, Texans Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite overtook them all to finish second, four shots behind Ballesteros. "Play the course," the winner had counseled himself, "and be cool." Asked how his second Masters victory compared with the first, Ballesteros said, "I tell you, they are both very sweet. But the first is always the best, like when you marry the first time." He is a bachelor...