Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laboratory tray chewed into a shapeless mass by a baboon who did no damage to his implants in the process. Another baboon has three plastic implants supporting a two-tooth bridge in the front of his lower jaw; he has worn down the artificial teeth from savage chewing on metal caging, but they have not loosened. Not until his animal research is finished will Dr. Hodosh go back to making implants in human mouths...
...friendship-and hence protection from rampaging redskins. Soon every back-porch whittler and crackerjack craftsman was getting into the act. Weather vanes popped up in the shapes of Uncle Sam, butterflies, locomotives, Gabriel tooting on a trumpet, a haggard country doctor astraddle a haggard horse, even a modest metal mermaid...
...trains encounter such friction and air resistance that they have trouble staying on the rails. Along similar lines, Ford Motor Co. has devised a model of a cigar-shaped vehicle dubbed the Levacar, which runs 300 m.p.h. along guide rails on a film of air forced through the perforated metal pads on the car's undersides...
...comments, and has contributed the gay, gaudy "Picasso alphabet"-multicolor flourishes in chalk-that adorns Miss Parmelin's text. The period covered is 1954-63, when Picasso, working with explosive exuberance, immortalized his lovely model (and later, second wife), Jacqueline Roque, on canvas and also in sheet metal, cast iron and ceramic tile...
...make gasoline buying even more enjoyable, the industry is placing its pumps in more attractive and convenient settings. "Gone are the days of the dirty, square metal station set on a piece of property 50 yds. by 50 yds.," says Clifford Venarde, Shell Oil's real estate manager. Major oil companies last year earmarked 65% of their capital expenditures for sprucing up and enlarging existing stations and for building handsome landscaped new ones. Shell, Sun Oil and Gulf are combining many of their new stations with restaurants, and Sun has opened a station in Canton, Ohio, with a built...