Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the Top. Then, one night last week, the three made their break just after the 9:30 bed check. They stuffed pillows into their cots, topped them off with crude but passable dummy heads fashioned from plaster, paint, and hair scraps that they had gathered from the prison barber shop. The holes in the wall were only 10 in. by 14 in., and though the shoulders of the three men were as broad as 17 in., they pushed through into a little-used utility corridor behind the cell wall. From there, they climbed up a 30-ft. pipe...
...gram. It is a marvel at detecting the presence of poison, easily spotting a thimbleful dissolved in ten tank cars of water. Neutron analysis can get along with specimens far smaller than those needed for conventional chemical analysis: a fragment of lint, a strand of hair, a fleck of paint will suffice. Happily, the radioactivity caused by the neutrons soon dies down, and once studied, the evidence can safely be brought into a courtroom...
...scenery designer, ex-ballet extra, ex-movie actor, ex-army officer, and a political exile. While working for the WPA, he did U.S. street scenes, landscapes, and "some very terrible murals." It was not until World War II, when he withdrew to his studio to paint "a war I did not see but a war I felt," that he hit his current stride. With the technique of the Spanish masters and the memory of Goya's Disasters of War, he turned out a series in which unearthly creatures marched and attacked in an eerie portrayal of all wars...
Died. Yves Klein, 34, farthest out of Paris' painters, a Dutch figurative artist's son who became a high-priced Parisian fad for his solid color (International Klein Blue) canvases, progressed to employing paint-slathered nudes as ''living brushes"; of a heart attack; in Paris...
Closer in to his capsule, though, Carpenter did solve a mystery: he satisfied himself that he had identified the glowing, drifting objects that intrigued both Glenn and Soviet Cosmonaut Titov. Space fireflies, Carpenter concluded, are only particles (presumably flecks of paint) from the capsule's skin. He proved the point by producing flocks of bright floating specks every time he rapped hard on his capsule's wall...