Word: precisionism
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After a welcoming flourish on its gleam ing, 40-in. herald trumpets, the Army band swung smartly into Waltz of the Flowers, and the two old soldiers in mufti stepped out to review their honor guard. Both were out of step with the music, but neither seemed to notice. The...
AT the rate of one each 30 minutes, 2,333 trucks churned out of Rio de Janeiro and took the road west, their springs creaking under all the paraphernalia of bureaucracy, from swivel chairs to paper clips. In the wilderness of Brazil's central plateau, planes touched down on...
The crown is an iridescent fountain of bubbling jewels. Diamonds spill and shimmer like droplets of moonlight. At its pinnacle, a huge, rough-cut ruby stares like an evil red eye. The diamond crown of Peter the Great is one of 80-odd superb photographic still lifes of the Kremlin...
By profession, Botvinnik is an electrical engineer, and one of the Soviet Union's best (he helped design the turbines for a giant hydroelectric plant on the Volga). He brings an engineering mind to the chessboard: steeped in the classical traditions and theories of chess, he sizes up his...
The weather satellite Tiros I (from Television and Infra-Red Observation Satellite) went into an almost perfectly circular orbit that will keep its cameras at an efficient picture-taking distance. Its farthermost point of 468 miles from the earth is only 32 miles higher than the low point. The feat...