Word: meshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prevent Frying. The army is spending $75 million on Kwajalein, and the island already looks like the set for a science-fiction movie. Close to the coral beach, a circular, steel-mesh fence, 65 ft. high and 680 ft. in diameter, surrounds a rotating, triangular radar antenna, 80 ft. on a side. This electronic monster is named ZAR (Zeus Acquisition Radar), and when it sends its pulses into space to probe for incoming missiles, the fence will act as a shield to keep the powerful radio waves from frying all Kwajalein. Crewmen operating ZAR will go to work through...
Like many abstract painters, Bertoia sees the universe as one great cup of energy. He is fascinated by the thought of "particles shooting through space," and the spiky mesh shown in color is his conception of the "track of these particles." Each wire had to be pulled separately through molten brass to give it a rough-textured coat. As wire after wire was welded into place, each tended to lose its identity. "The line," says Bertoia, "finally disappears and becomes a diffusion." In a sense, the sculpture has no beginning and no end. Though the particle tracks shoot...
Outside the brand-new, four-story, limestone Municipal Cultural Center in Jerusalem, a 9-ft.-high wire-mesh security fence was being erected last week. Inside, work is progressing on a bulletproof glass and plastic cage in which Adolf Eichmann will sit when he goes on trial. The cage, declare the Israelis, is both to shield Eichmann from assassination by an enraged spectator and to prevent a sympathizer from slipping him a vial of poison such as allowed Hermann Göring to escape the hangman's noose during the Nürnberg War Crimes trials after World...
...steel-mesh runway of Wattay Airport in Vientiane, a group of athletic-looking Americans in bright sports shirts and baseball caps busily loaded machine-gun belts and rockets aboard the four new T-6 "training" planes of the Royal Laotian Army. Not far away, behind a desk littered with documents stamped "secret," was their shirt-sleeved boss-former Brigadier General John Arnold Heintges, 48. The general tells his visitors: "Call me mister...
After four weeks, the chickens were tested for sociability by putting them one by one in an apparatus that kept automatic track of how much time they spent near a "stimulus" chicken, separated from them by a partition of wire mesh. The chickens raised in a flock or in pairs showed intense togetherness, spending nearly all their time close to the other chickens. But the chickens raised in isolation fled to the far end of the cage...