Word: paints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DRESSED in old clothes and overalls, the 5,000 suburbanites-men, women and children-looked ready for weekend chores in house or garden. Instead, they were on their way to help thousands of New York City slum dwellers clean, repair, paint and decorate 43 of the city's grimiest, grittiest blocks. By nightfall, when residents gave their guests an outdoor buffet, the scabrous streets were conspicuously cleaner and perhaps a little more habitable, with balloons waving from fire escapes and pastels brightening alleyways...
Ernst belonged to both movements, and played a particularly important part in developing new techniques for executing the new art forms. It was he who first painted by taking a can of paint with a small hole in it and-swinging it above his canvas. The so-called frottage, producing an image by placing paper over a surface and rubbing it with a pencil and later with paints, was his invention as well. It transferred the three dimensional surface of the object directly onto the two-dimensional surface of the paper...
...11th and M, a fire broke out suddenly in a paint store. Down the block, two old Negro men were sitting on a stoop, looking up the street at the flames. "See that kid run in there with that fire bomb?" one said. The other nodded. Within seconds, two fire trucks had begun heaving water. One of them hoisted a ladder with a hose attached over the flames and water poured down on them like a waterfall. Firemen moved to the three-story tenement next door; it was in danger of going up next. They carried out three children...
...Washington, the National Gallery of Art and the Atomic Energy Commission have contributed $25,000 apiece to finance three years' research into the perfection of "atomic fingerprinting" for old masters at Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute. The technique, originally developed by Dutch scientists, consists of taking flecks of paint from genuine Rembrandts and Vermeers, then bombarding them with neutrons in a reactor in order to measure their exact chemical impurities. In time, the Mellon Institute hopes to compile a library of chemical analyses of the different types of paint used by a dozen famous artists-or at least...
Scrambling for survival capital, Riklis sold off Rapid-American's businesses (paint, printing and clothing), leaving it a mere shell. McCrory, too, came in for a paring. Riklis then bought control of Glen Alden Corp., a conglomerate with interests in coal and leather goods (which he sold) and textiles and R.K.O. theaters (which he retained). By 1965, such shufflings yielded some $50 million, which Riklis soon put to work. Since early 1966, Glen Alden has bought into building materials, B.V.D. clothing, and only three months ago, the diversified Stanley Warner Corp., whose interests include Playtex bras, movie theaters...