Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Woodward's case, police technicians found the tire iron minutely flecked with paint-a few specks resembling the light blue of his car, a few matching the light brown of the jimmied door. But there was no sure proof that Woodward used the tire iron to jimmy the door. The specks were so tiny (as small as one one-hundredth of a milligram) that conventional chemical or spectroscopic analysis was useless. So the police turned to a radiochemical research team headed by Dr. Vincent P. Guinn of General Dynamics Corp.'s General Atomic Division in San Diego...
Guinn's scientists simply irradiated samples of the various paints and projected the resulting radiation patterns on an oscilloscope screen. Components of the two blue and the two brown paint samples were so alike that no one could dispute their common origin. At Woodward's trial last month, a General Atomic scientist testified that it was "99.98% certain" that the tire iron came from Woodward's car, "99.999% certain" that it was used to jimmy the door. A jury quickly found Defendant Woodward guilty as charged. Before the advent of N.A.A. he would almost surely have gone...
...Sound of Color. Kupka was 40 before he produced his first abstract paintings called Nocturne, Fugue in Red and Blue, and Warm Chromatic. Born in 1871 to a Bohemian village clerk in what is now Czechoslovakia, he began drawing statues in the town square, entered art school in Prague at the age of 16. He delighted in the new philosophies of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, who exalted unconscious will and intuition over reason. He was entranced by their thought that music is the most abstract and therefore highest art - and decided to challenge it in paint...
...became President. Said Miller, referring to Johnson's weekend driving habits and the Bobby Baker investigation: "There are only two businesses in the country that are better off today than they were under the Republicans. One is the seat-belt business in Texas and the other is the paint business in Washington, because they sell so much whitewash to all the congressional investigating committees." On another occasion, Miller quipped: "Bobby Baker is going to write a book entitled Somebody Up There Likes Me-Or At Least I Thought...
Parke-Bernet was able to paint a rosy financial picture as recently as 1962, when its sales of $14.1 million placed it within chanting distance of Sotheby's $24.7 million. But lately the 220-year-old English firm has been auctioning most of the most important art collections, this season has sold a record $36 million worth; its $11 million sales of American collections alone exceeded Parke-Bernet's fading total turnover of $10.8 million. Without even asking Parke-Bernet to submit a proposal, for example, the Guggenheim Museum this year decided to send 50 paintings by Russian...