Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were that energetic and that saggy. The combination said something blue about man's estate, the approved tone of most contemporary sculpture. But Frink's ostensible purpose has nothing to do with moral messages or with ideals of any kind, not even plastic ones. "Somebody makes a metal armature for me," she explains, "and I start covering it with quick-drying plaster. I work very fast, often trying to combine the form of a bird with the form of a man. I'm absorbed in forms. When I do a bird, it's not a bird...
When Staudacher found that he was still alive and unhurt, he climbed lightly out of the cockpit. The sight was nearly too much for old friend and fellow speed-man, Guy Lombardo, orchestra leader, onetime hydroplane driver and half owner of Tempo-Alcoa. "I expected to see crumpled metal and a crumpled body," says Lombardo. Sprinting toward the wreck, down Pelican Point, Lombardo fell heavily on the rocky shore, cut his leg so painfully that he had to be driven back to Reno. Behind the wheel: nerveless Les Staudacher...
...derelict? The skipper caught a dangling rope and swung himself aboard. Fires out, engines dead, cargo-kapok, tea and aircraft engines-apparently intact. "Anybody aboard?" he bellowed as he wandered through the metal guts of the old gasper. "Anybody aboard?" A blow sent him reeling. A mad. bloody head leaped at him out of the shadows. "Who are you?" the creature (Gary Cooper) snarled. "What are you doing here...
...goes well, the fuel burns evenly, acts as an insulator to protect the vulnerable metal casing from the searing heat of its flame. As the fuel is consumed, the cavity becomes nearly cylindrical, so when the flame reaches the outside wall not enough fuel is left to soften the metal. A well-made solid-fuel rocket engine can be touched with bare fingers just after firing on the test stand...
...stones, developed its process to prevent any other synthetic-diamond producer from drastically undercutting natural industrial diamond prices. Despite De Beers' discovery, G.E. has a long head start, is improving its stones. It disclosed last week that it had developed a diamond material that can be used in metal-bonded wheels, a use that was not possible before. Ideally, Oppenheimer sees "an expanded world market, in which both the natural and the synthetic product could coexist...