Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dawn's first light broke through a heavy haze, diffusing Christmas Island's end-of-the-world ugliness. The barren stretches of sand and scrub, the grey hulls of freighters and barges in the tiny harbor, the naked steel testing towers, the exposed beams of half-completed buildings, all took on a weird beauty. It was already a humid 76°. An 8-knot breeze rippled the coconut fronds. In a small operations building, about 15 technicians sat amid the coffee-cup litter of a sleepless night...
...sand beneath a pier at Daytona Beach, Fla., a group of collegians gathered, glanced surreptitiously about, and one by one held out their arms. At that moment a passing dowager spied the scene, stared for a moment in horrified silence, and rushed away to report what was certainly a wicked rite. "I knew it!" she gasped. "They're taking the needle...
...final scene, when the fortune is safe in friendly in Hayakawa province, the two peasants come to the Princess for their rewards. She receives them in a sand garden where all is perfectly ordered and symmetrical. She and the general are arranged on a dais so as to be in perfect linear harmony with their surroundings. They have left the mountains and their angularity behind; Kurosawa underlines this happy and tranquil ending with a visual schema that is serene and classically ordered...
...President Kennedy, are employing several tactics to protect the Dunes. First they have asked the steel companies and the Engineers to explore other available sites for both mills and harbor. They have requested Northwestern University to cancel its purchase of two and a half million cubic yards of Dunes' sand from Bethlehem Steel (one would expect the trustees, faculty and students of the University to realize the significance of this unfortunate deal). Finally Senator Douglas and his colleagues have proposed a bill in Congress to create a 9000 acre national park in the area...
...wasteland of sand and water. It covers more than 50 million square miles and extends almost halfway around the earth. Its inhabitants hunt goats in fern-forested Kauai. and missile nose cones in the sleepy lagoon of Eniwetok. It is the habitat of strange "birds" with peculiar names-Samos, Discoverer. Midas, Nike-Zeus-whose flights are scratched across the sky in weird contrails and tracked by missile-watching machines on a California mud flat and in such far-flung outposts as Alaska, Hawaii, Kwajalein and Christmas Island. The PMR-for Pacific Missile Range-is the nation's largest testing...