Word: mockups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Francisco attracts children to a place aptly named the Exploratorium. In Seattle kids can ride on a giant gyroscope to experience the principles of mechanical equilibrium, which kept the Gemini space capsule, conveniently on exhibit near by in a mockup, on target. In Jacksonville, a children's museum features a model of the ear, nose and throat canals large enough to crawl through. The Boston Children's Muse um has an area called Grandmother's Attic, where gold lame dresses and high-button shoes can be tried on. In Indianapolis, which last year became the site...
...reluctant to join in the hoopla, though she tries to avoid responding to the sexist gambit that has become Riggs' credo (see box page 56), she is not above capitalizing on the happening. Recently she filmed an electric-shaver commercial with Riggs. Set in a Boeing 747 mockup, the scenario has Billie Jean walking past a row of Riggs look-alikes and muttering, "I think they ought to break the mold...
...Iced Cucumber Soup ($.50 small; .90 large) was tepid, and had an unusual but forgettable taste. The Ratatouille, filling for Omlettes ($1.75) or Crepes ($2.25) was a mockup of zuchinni and tomato paste...
...named Don Potts set out to do exactly that. The result of his six years of labor, entitled My First Car, is on view this week at New York's Whitney Museum. It is not a car, to be precise, but a set of four components - a wooden mockup chassis, a chassis with engine, and two bodies, one of metal, the other of stretched glider cloth - all of which could theoretically be fitted together...
...that the Russians have done to stoke Washington's fears. U.S. intelligence sources reported that the Soviets last week conducted another test of a key offensive weapon under the seemingly innocuous designation Cosmos 365. They sent aloft a giant S59 rocket, apparently carrying as its payload a mockup of an FOBS (for fractional orbital bombardment system), or space bomb, which could release its deadly cargo on virtually any terrestrial target. The U.S. has no such weapon and no defense against...