Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motorcade, the Kennedys and the Connallys rode in the third car, a 1961 Lincoln convertible equipped with a clear plastic bubble top. But on O'Donnell's instructions, the bubble top was down; it was a clear, sunny day. Moreover, the President had ordered that no Secret Service agents were to ride on the small running boards at the rear...
Double Passage. Davis made a Möbius loop out of a strip of nonconducting plastic that had metal foil bonded to both sides to serve as an electrical resistance. He attached wires to the foil on opposite sides of the strip. When he sent electrical pulses through those wires, the current divided, flowed in both directions through the foil, and passed itself twice. Because of the double passage, the inductance was as low as Davis had hoped. He is delighted but still puzzled. The pulses apparently pass right through themselves, and he cannot be sure...
...will ease the burden of Tokyo's cab drivers, who have a hard time finding their way around and usually require written directions (in Japanese) to reach a destination. The reek of setting cement permeates Tokyo like a geisha's scent, and roadside cafes are mounted with plastic shields to ward off the dust stirred up by building...
...amidst the casual atmosphere of a subdued county fair, a visitor can "see" his voice, watch a working model steel mill, scramble through a captured German submarine, ride an elevator down to an operating coal mine under the museum, watch thousands of plastic balls fall into a probability curve, follow a feather and a penny as they fall at the same rate in a vacuum. Everywhere, the visitor participates, pushing buttons, pulling levers, yanking chains, turning cranks and talking into phones. He can play ticktacktoe with a computer, watch baby chicks hatch, walk through a throbbing, 16-ft. model...
...keys like ranks of tiny birds in a nest. Braun Co. of Germany spends money that it otherwise would plunge into advertising on teaching employees the principles of good design. The effect carries on the Bauhaus tradition in toasters, hair dryers, and transistor radio-phonographs that are perfect plastic sculpture...