Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carrier-based Navy jets screeched through MIG-cluttered skies to hit the MIG base at Kep, northeast of Hanoi, with 250-lb. bombs and cluster bombs that spray thousands of lethal metal fragments. In two raids, they scored moderate-to-heavy damage to the run way, control tower and oil-storage tanks, but apparently caught few, if any, MIGs in their hardstands; an orange cloud of billowing smoke was visible al most 20 miles away. Flying out of bases in Thailand, a dozen Air Force Phantom jets then scorched the new MIG base at Hoa Lac, damaged or destroyed...
Planners are hoping for $8 million under the recent Kennedy-Javits amendment to the Economic Opportunity Act; it provides incentives to businesses which set up on-the-job training programs. Even without that money, a small metal-working firm, providing 30 or 40 jobs, has agreed to locate in the neighborhood, and five other companies of about that size are considering the idea...
...designed to land on a planet. To comply, the U.S. plans to seal its Mars-bound Voyager landing capsule in a canister and bake it for as long as 53 hours at a temperature of 257 °F.-enough heat exposure to kill even the organisms within the solid metal structures of the spacecraft. Aware that sterilization of some early Ranger moonships damaged spacecraft systems and led to the failure of missions, scientists are spending time and money to design new Voyager systems that will withstand prolonged heating...
...Texas, last week, and Texas A. & M.'s best-known student was a little embarrassed by all the fuss. "I haven't felt so much pressure since the Olympics," he said. Whereupon he stepped into the shotput ring and, on his first try, heaved the 16-lb. metal ball 71 ft. 5½ in. - breaking his own world record by a fantastic...
...moving sliding keys, he activated a battery of projectors behind a translucent screen. He became so skillful that he was able to create what he called lumia compositions-slowly evolving, shifting, glowing abstract patterns. At the Weimar Bauhaus, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy between 1922 and 1930 devised a polished metal and clear plastic Light Display Machine. But such items remained isolated curios ities. It took the 1950s and 1960s to attract a whole spectrum of artists to the medium...