Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week staid old Zurich celebrated dada's 50th anniversary. Over a thou sand gathered where the Cabaret Voltaire once stood (and Lenin once lived...
...David among Goliaths-yet he could be the most philistine of men. He called himself "a grain of sand in the public's eye," and he could be just as irritating. His friend Ben Hecht called him "a kind of slum poet and Jack the Ripper rolled into one." To Showman Billy Rose, compliments and catcalls were one and the same. Every knock was a boost, every insult a reminder that at least people were talking about him-as they had from the time he was a boy on Manhattan's Lower East Side until his death last...
...Army engineer's worst enemies in Viet Nam are sand, heat, rain and the Viet Cong-in that order. Sand sifts into the clutches, bearings and grease seals of vital construction equipment that is needed 20 hours a day, seven days a week. The days are so hot (sometimes reaching 125°) that concrete must be poured after dark. The muggy, rainy tropical climate silently, incessantly erodes everything from spanners to cranes. And there is the ever-present threat of Viet Cong snipers or a full-scale enemy attack...
Just about everything went wrong. The contact man who was to meet him on a beach 50 miles south of Bombay was not there, and the plane's nose wheel collapsed on landing, bending the propellers in the sand. Undismayed, Walcott coolly ordered the local police to guard the plane while he and the co-pilot caught a bus to Bombay, taking along two suitcases full of watches. In Bombay, Walcott apparently quietly disposed of the watches and picked up the second pilot. Then all three men bluffed their way into the line of debarking passengers at Bombay...
...makes neither shoes nor sealing wax, but its 43 plants do build ships, satellites, research submarines and even a 220-ft. hydrofoil vessel. Lockheed maintains President Johnson's Boeing-built 707 jet. Its 300 products range from metal micro-particles .025 in. in diameter-as small as sifted sand-to the Polaris missiles, capable of bearing hydrogen warheads from beneath the sea to targets 2,500 miles away. Lockheed's second-stage Agena rocket has put more payload in orbit than any other U.S. booster, telemetered more data from space than all other U S. spacecraft combined...