Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With graceful constellations of wire and drifting metal, young Alexander Calder made sculpture airborne. Today, more than 30 years since he made the mobile a household word, "Sandy" Calder is working as hard as ever-on the ground. In France, where he has lived off and on since 1926, the Connecticut Yankee has created freestanding metal sculptures more massive than those of any other 20th century artist...
...cottages in the chateau country of Touraine. The sculptures bear terse, functional names, such as Dog, Long Nose or Snowplow, tower above the trim countryside. Yet, the neighbors call Calder "le Bricoleur"- the Tinker-because he is always willing to pause from his work and shape a tiny bright metal toy for one of their children...
...Metal Eaters. What frustrates so many Soviet ambitions is a simple matter of priorities. Hard-nosed traditionalists have long insisted that Russia follow Stalin's policy of sinking all available capital into defense and heavy
Hint of Reason. In any case, the Kremlin for years to come will be faced with mounting economic pressures that will at least discourage metal-eating military budgets. A minor $666 million cutback in Soviet defense spending announced last month was, Khrushchev insisted, the result not of economic difficulties but of "considerations of common sense guided by a sincere desire for peace." Moreover, during Russia's Western-aided chemicalization, itself a far more rational exercise than pouring rubles into an ever-increasing steel capacity that Moscow needs mostly for prestige, the note of reasonableness may just possibly persist...
...Pittsburgh last week, the optimism was as audible as the roar of the huge furnaces that poured forth white-hot metal day and night. Steel production is running ahead of last year, and orders are rolling in so fast that every week proves better than the last. First-quarter output should easily top 28 million tons -around 10 million better than hoped for. Looked at from any angle, the U.S. steel industry is off to what may be its best year ever...