Word: parallele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Power. The only measure of success in the air, for people and for airborne industry, is the quality of that wondrously complicated envelope of safety, and the first responsibility for that safety rests in the hands of an organization that, for power and procedure, has no parallel in the U.S. It is the Federal Aviation Agency, and the man who rules it is a temperamental, mail-fisted, blunt-talking ex-fighter pilot named Elwood Ricardo Gonzalo Quesada...
...fertile and congenial parts of Africa where Europeans have established colonies and built cities, the news from Algeria was a warning of what it might be like in their own countries if conditions worsened. For the Algerian parallel was often present-a minority of white settlers, economically dominant but numerically outnumbered, who found themselves out of tune with a distant capital (London or Paris) which recognizes that the days of old-style colonialism are over. Nobody mentioned Algeria around the table under the glittering chandelier of London's Lancaster House last week, as the Kenya Constitutional Conference entered...
...bishop stands in need of reciprocal admission to the riches of the great Methodist tradition. If he is consistent, he will apply to the Methodist Bishop of California for parallel admission to the orders of that church...
...California's Newell has each player shuffling along the floor with his knees flexed, one hand up, one hand down, for 20 minutes at a time. Says Newell: "The hand should be in the shooter's face to disconcert him; the other arm should be extended almost parallel to the floor to deflect passes. We condition arm muscles so that the arms can be held up over protracted lengths of time. In boxing, it is fatal to drop your hands; the same is true in basketball." Newell runs practice games at both fast and slow speeds: "We want...
...acquisition, a 1949 oil entitled Woman in Blue, is the donation of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, who are notable collectors of modern art. The woman was obviously posed in a chair, but she is painted so that she seems to stand parallel to the wall, in a manner reminiscent of El Greco's Fray Hortensio Felix Paravicino. The intricate composition contrasts the arabesques on the left side of the canvas with the straighter verticals on the right, and is painted in a startingly original color scheme, full of blues, lavenders, and canary yellow. This is major Picasso...