Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heat to Cure. The plants that make Minuteman boosters are also reflections of solid-fuel simplicity. There is little machine work; most of the engine's comparatively few parts come prefabricated. Biggest part of the job is filling the casing with fuel, which is a secret liquid plastic compound mixed with crystalline potassium perchlorate to supply oxygen. The mixing is done in a plant that is mostly underground. A crane running on rails sets the empty booster casing upright in a square hole. Then an odd-looking little building mounted on rails moves over each casing and carefully pours...
Fiber-glass boats dominated the show (more than 200 boats displayed). Some 40% of all small pleasure boats being built are of fiber glass; last year alone, plastic boat production jumped from 85,000 to 130,000 boats. Among the plastic sail fleet: a 17-ft. Thistle sloop ($1,875 without sails), Cape Cod Shipbuilding's 23-ft. Marlin day sailor ($5,500 without sails), the 25-ft. New Horizons auxiliary sloop ($8,950 with sails), and the 41-ft. Bounty II with a new yawl rig to improve its racing potential. Newest members of the flotilla...
...geophysicists, the ocean trenches are some of the most interesting places on earth. A well-supported theory holds that the trenches are places where the earth's crust is being sucked slowly into the depths by currents in the plastic inner material. When Trieste has penetrated the Marianas Trench and studied its rugged bottom, her reports may explain the origin not only of the earth's ocean deeps but also of its mountains...
Prettified to the point of sentimentality, four Austrian Baroque sculptures depicting three saints and the Virgin, recall the tendency of that period and that country to sweeten religion. Yet the artist gave these less-than-profound figures and their billowing garb linear fluidity and much plastic interest. Characterized by an adept handling of color, especially pale reds and blue-greens, the Dutch painting portrays Christ on the way to Calvary with expressive, distorted figures...
...greatest personal-publicity experts, Spain's Surrealist Salvador Dali, made his regular winter pilgrimage to Manhattan, managed to make sure that everybody knew of his arrival. Dressed in a gold leather space suit, Dali looked a trifle Martian while posing inside his latest brainchild, an "ovocipede," a transparent plastic sphere that rolls merrily along while its operator sits comfortably (says Dali) encapsulated. For newsmen, Dali climaxed his performance by letting the ovocipede get out of control, wound up sublimely supine...