Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington's Union Station last week, the Pennsylvania Railroad's ancient private car No. 1750 came to a hesitant stop. Clearly uncertain of the engineer's intentions, King Hassan II of Morocco descended cautiously to the platform, then displayed a big, engaging smile as he shook hands with President John F. Kennedy, and turned with even more warmth to Jackie Kennedy, who was smartly clad in a spring dress and coat, and dark blue straw...
Daughter Kattrin is a war-victimized mute with a desperate love of children. In Brecht's mordant view, kindness is voiceless in the world. Kattrin performs the only noble and impassioned act in the play when she mounts a platform and beats out a drum tattoo warning a sleeping town of ambush. A single musket shot silences her. Zohra Lampert detonates this episode shatteringly after having made her Kattrin an intaglio of forlorn brooding poignance. As Anne Bancroft cradles her daughter in marble stillness, the scene has the desolating sadness of a Piet...
Caouette is the most conspicuous new political phenomenon in Canada, and a man who on April 8 could wind up holding the balance of power in a nation deeply divided between Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's Conservatives and Lester Pearson's Liberals. Caouette's platform is based on the funny-money Social Credit party, which in the Depression promised a printing-press prosperity (each citizen should get a share of the national wealth-in cash...
...usually at lower levels, that bilingualism, though given lip service in the federal capital at Ottawa, is ignored throughout the rest of the nation; that even their own province's economy is dominated by English-speaking Canadians. To War-No! Caouette shares their insecurity and makes it his platform. The son of a Quebec civil servant and the fourth of 15 children, he was forced by pinched family finances to give up a classical education and go to commercial school. He struggled to run a grocery store, sold used cars, finally became a Chrysler dealer in the town...
Loitering Platform. Extra payload and range are all-important in commercial aviation, but the brightest prospect for the LFC principle is probably military. Aware that modern detection svstems and ground-to-air missiles are too effective to let many ordinary bombers get close to important targets, the Pentagon is hopefully looking forward to flying missile platforms. And an ideal platform would be a plane, loitering aloft, just beyond reach of enemy interceptors, ready to launch long-range air-to-ground missiles at targets deep in enemy territory. Existing bombers have small talent for loitering; the big B-52s, backbone...