Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Market was expected to import fewer goods from the U.S., American exports to the six-nation area last year actually soared 42% (to $3.4 billion) over the 1959 level. In time, Common Market manufacturers, including U.S. subsidiaries, will undoubtedly supply a far higher proportion of the consumer goods, from plastic ice buckets to portable TV sets, that now come largely from the U.S. But the loss will be more than canceled out by rising sales of U.S.-made capital goods-sophisticated electronic control systems and specialized heavy machinery...
...these men were experimenters and, although their experiments sometimes fail artistically, they add considerable excitement to the Bauhaus work: some utilized the texture of the cloth they paint on, others created directly on photographic film without a camera, carved into laminated plastic, or painted on glass. And most of them not only painted but designed buildings, fabrics, furniture, and tried their hands at other arts relevant to the visual environment...
...Phuoc Thanh woke to the bludgeoning explosion of a plastic bomb that ripped away a corner of the concrete administration building. As the provincial chief and two of his aides rushed to the street, they were shot down. Over the rampart swarmed 600 Viet Cong Communist guerrillas brandishing rifles and machetes. Most of the town's 50 Civil Guards were machine-gunned as they slept. A company of 70 U.S.-trained Vietnamese Rangers retreated to the jungle, leaving the town to its fate. Their commander explained later that he intended to ambush the guerrillas as they withdrew...
...future will have to be tested in the open because the earth's crust cannot hold them. Former Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard F. Libby estimates that a ten-megaton test would need to be exploded 18 miles below the surface. At this depth the rock is probably so plastic that digging a test hole would be impossible. Another possibility is to fire tests above the earth's atmosphere, as the U.S. did on a small scale in Project Argus (August-September 1958). But a big, rocket-borne test involves intricate problems in technology; countless things could go wrong...
...Electronic computer for the duffer who practices with plastic golf balls in his living room, sold by Manhattan's Hammacher Schlemmer. The machine figures out how far each drive would have traveled on the links, whether it was hooked, sliced, or straight down the fairway. Price...