Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Japan after World War II. A mist-shrouded necklet of 50 volcanic islets, the Kuriles are strung strategically from within seven miles of Hokkaido to seven miles from Kamchatka on the Siberian mainland. "The whole place looked half-abandoned," said Army Specialist Five Theodore Sokardo. "The runway was narrow and the field buildings were dingy and, wellere flashed to U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson in Moscow, who took advantage of a similar treaty-signing ceremony to speak with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin about the airliner. He assured the Soviet leader that any violation of Soviet airspace was unintentional. Kosygin stalled...
Welding Retinas. Taking advantage of the unerring straightness and narrow diameter of laser beams, engineers are already using them to keep bridges, tunnels and dams in line during construction. Laser light has also proved helpful in aligning jet-plane assembly operations and the two-mile-long Stanford linear accelerator. When the high energy of laser light is concentrated on a small area, it serves as a high-speed drill that can burn precision holes through materials as hard as diamonds in a small fraction of the time required by conventional methods. It can vaporize the rough edges of such microscopically...
...Hardware Store in Westport, Conn. Dubiously, the Chief Justice-designate of the U.S. fingered the new, chemically treated dustcloth, examining it carefully by sight and feel. Finally, aware perhaps that this was a matter beyond his competence, he concurred with the clerk's opinion. Tramping around the narrow streets of Westport, accompanied by TIME Washington Bureau Chief John Steele, Fortas was enjoying the scruffy anonymity of any other summer refugee from the city. In baggy grey pants, a flame-red cardigan sweater, scuffed brown shoes (one with a tongue missing) and a floppy white yachtsman...
Truffaut's later films have seemed, for the most part, to go too far out or too close in. Partly to encourage backers who were dismayed at the commercial anemia of his critical successes, Truffaut in The Soft Skin abandoned the visual conceits of, narrow and widening screen and rocketing flashbacks that characterized his previous works. Skin was a mild film of convention that won few admirers. Fahrenheit 451, starring Oskar Werner and Julie Christie, was his only true failure, an atypically emotionless sci-fi attempt to show the future as nightmare. The fact, of course, that...
...hands of Los Angeles-born Gary Karr, 26, the bass sings instead of croaks, and it sings with all the richness of the cello, the warmth of the viola and the agility of the violin. Yet Karr is not content simply to be the master of a narrow field. He wants to broaden the field-by revamping the technique of bass playing and bringing the instrument into its own as a solo voice. "My intention is to start revolutions," he says. "Most bass music doesn't demand very much, and most bass players don't want to work...