Word: pad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Banners. Motherwell followed the surrealists' injunction to take doodling seriously as a way of tapping subconscious images-"only the doodling is done on the scale of the Sistine Chapel, not of the telephone pad." To illustrate a friend's poem in 1948, he made his most haunting "doodle": three powerful vertical bars with three hard-pressed black ovoid forms caught between each. They could have been prisoners trapped behind bars or, as Modern Museum Curator Frank O'Hara suggests, "bulls' tails and testicles hung side by side on the wall of the arena after...
HELP! The Beatles romp through sight and sound gags pursued by a band of sinister Orientals out to make a human sacrifice of Ringo. Addicts will welcome the shots of the Beatles' communal pad, which - among other things - has wall-to-wall grass...
...Launching Pad. Another factor in the new atmosphere has been the feeling that the church should be, as San Francisco's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike puts it, "a launching pad, not a comfort station." American Christianity's desire to say and do something relevant about social problems of the day has propelled clergymen out of the pulpit and onto civil rights picket lines. "From there," says the Rt. Rev. James Montgomery, Episcopal Suffragan Bishop of Chicago, "it is only another short step into deliberate partnership in the war on poverty and in educational projects." One reason that...
...luck seemed behind the spacecraft at last. Forgotten for the moment was the mare's nest of trouble that had postponed the flight for two days. Fuel cells running low on fuel, liquid hydrogen boiling uselessly away, telemetering equipment turned suddenly unreliable, fire near the launch pad, thunderstorms aloft−all seemed problems of the past. Now everything was going well; Gemini's orbit was incredibly exact. "Everything is fine," reported Command Pilot Gordon Cooper. "You are go! You are go!" exulted Astronaut Jim McDivitt, capsule communicator in the Mission Control Center near Houston...
...Sputnik 1 supplied the needed boost to get the U.S. space program off its pad, and the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration began its talent hunt. Kraft volunteered. He was assigned to study the problems and needs of running ground operations for manned space flight. What he was getting into was a far cry from the crude trailers and optical trackers of his Langley days, but he was ideally suited for the job in both training and temperament. "There's a natural wedding between the technologies of aircraft test flight and space test flight," explains Dr. Robert...