Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chill, grey mist hangs over the jungled hills around Khe Sanh and drifts down onto the base's metal run way. The morning mist often lasts into the afternoon, the bright sun of recent weeks is lost in monsoonal overcast, and the air is raw and wet with winter. The camp seems to have settled into a dull, lethargic pace to match the dull, damp weather that envelops it. In a mood of resignation, Marines go about their life-or-death work, digging into the red clay, filling sandbags, bolstering the bunkers they know are their one protection against...
...team in 1959. Bonnet taught his racers the aerodynamic "oeuf" position that won a gold medal in the downhill for Jean Vuarnet at Squaw Valley in 1960. He dressed them in slick nylon stretch suits instead of baggy trousers and tops, switched them from wood to more maneuverable metal skis, made training an intensive, year-round proposition, stressed strength and speed over the niceties of technique...
...Mark III's most obvious feature is a vertical hashmark grille in shimmering metal that closely resembles the grille of a Rolls-Royce. On its 117-in. wheel base, the car mounts an eight-cylinder, 460-cu.-in. engine specially designed to provide improved combustion and cut exhaust fumes. Other features, including interior warning lights, air conditioners and radios, have been adapted from either the smaller Thunderbird or the bigger Lincoln...
...deftly the Greeks-and Romans and Etruscans-wrought this versatile metal from 1700 B.C. onward can be seen from a display of 316 classical bronzes, covering a period of 23 centuries, selected from 79 private and museum collections by David Gordon Mitten of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum (see color opposite). The first exhibition on such a scale ever to be circulated in the U.S., the classical bronzes will be shown at the City Art Museum of St. Louis in March, later at the Los Angeles County Museum...
...first time. Inco is not worried at the prospect. Rising demand and higher nickel prices produced a profit of $118 million last year on sales of $694,100,000, and Inco's stock and dividend payouts are setting new records, just like the shiny and coveted metal that is responsible...