Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Burlington, Mass, helped Eastern solve the problem of getting radiographic equipment into the hollow rotor shaft of jet engines by using a 100-curie capsule of iridium 192 that is as small as a pencil eraser but emits gamma radiation powerful enough to pierce the engine's metal innards...
Kosygin announced increased emphasis on the production of consumer goods and construction of apartments. While the "metal eaters" of the steel industry are not to be stomped on as Khrushchev tried to do, metallurgy will get a smaller slice of capital outlays than consumer goods or food. The chemical industry is due for a sizable share of capital, though it will not switch to making plastics for consumers with the abandon visualized by Khrushchev. Heavy industry in general, said Kosygin, will have to move into some consumer lines such as "refrigerators, washing machines and television sets...
...Hamilton has contrived some hilariously horrible sight gags. Item: a gangster Goldfingered for liquidation is taken for a ride to the nearest junkyard, where car and contents are seized by a giant claw, dropped into a mighty mangle and ruthlessly crushed into a small square bale of bloody metal. "Ah, yes!" Goldfinger graciously explains when somebody wonders where the gangster is. "He had a pressing engagement...
Last week's 107 to 97 vote ended a factional dispute that has troubled the union since early July. At that time the skilled tradesmen of the union--mainly plumbers, electricians, pipefitters, and sheet-metal-workers--refused to join with other employees in negotiating a new contract...
...decomposed, of a life jacket, a night table, and the extremities of a stuffed bear (whose sawed-off head nuzzles into a broken goldfish bowl). The human figure, when it appears, seems almost a wry joke. William King, 39, for instance, makes 7-ft. figures out of burlap and metal that are raucous commentaries on the self-pride of mankind. Richard A. Miller, 42, casts a conventional bronze nude. But he does it three times in the exquisite feminine gait clearly following Eadweard Muybridge's sequence photo experiments of the 1880s of a walking nude. Frank Gallo, 31, scoops...