Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performance range of high-powered conventional rifles. V-Ls can be fired chemically and electrically, as well as with hot-air jets, making them adaptable to a large variety of weapons systems. Elimination of cartridges would also solve a troublesome problem in tank turrets, where hot shell casings pile up quickly during combat. And V-L ammunition would be ideal for aircraft cannon, which sometimes jam when high-G forces produced during maneuvers prevent the ejection of cartridges...
Free Love, Free Sex. As the pile-driving beat thunders out of six speakers with deafening insistence, blinding strobe lights flash in rhythm with the music; the walls swim with projections of amoeba-like patterns slithering through puddles of quivering color. Just as in other psychedelic-lit joints, such as Andy Warhol's Gymnasium in Manhattan, the aim is to immerse everybody in sound and sight. When the spell takes hold, young mothers with sleeping infants in their arms waltz dreamily around the floor; other dancers drift into a private reverie, devising new ways to contort their bodies. Some...
...pieces that are far and away the most popular with the students. One is an Henri Laurens reclining nude, called Esquisse d'Automne, whose raised arm and leg form what has already become one of U.C.L.A.'s most popular benches. The other is a clean, shiny pile of aluminum cubes by David Smith entitled Cubi-XX, which not only wins high marks on esthetic grounds but, as students have discovered by pounding on its several sides, also makes a dandy two-tone bongo drum...
...only one on hand to record the surrender of the Egyptian commander to Israeli forces. When war broke out again, he headed for the front on an assignment for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Approaching Gaza in a private car, he found the road blocked by a pile of stones. He got out, pushed a rock aside. A mine exploded, and he was killed instantly...
...penance for my long lack of faith, I have spent an exam period evening with a typewriter and a pile of Thoroughbred Records and decided to call it for Damascus. His Preakness was beautiful. Approaching the stretch turn, he was second to last and then, according to the official chart, "circled the field with a mighty rush" and "established a commanding lead." Coming from the invariably monosyllabic chart writer, that is poetry. Proud Clarion, despite a less than perfect ride by jockey Bobby Ussery, also started to make a good move in the stretch, and for a split second...