Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over Cape Kennedy's northwest shoulder, a new landscape is taking shape. Its principal feature is the tall, white, broad-hipped barn for rocket assembly (see color pages); its major contribution is the application of U.S. assembly-line genius on a gargantuan scale...
Although the market last proved positive, Geer and Hirst stopped producing Kiss of Death cigarette last September. Only large scale distribution would make continued production worthwhile, they said, and they are hesitant about risking the sizable investment that such distribution would require. The cancer score, they noted, is dead, sad it was only that scare that made their cigarette popular...
Cars are made in several scales; most popular is 1 to 24. Speeds scale accordingly; 15 m.p.h. on the 1/24 scale is the equivalent of about 300 m.p.h. In slot-car drag races, where there are no curves and speed is the only criterion, the little cars can accelerate to as much as 600 m.p.h. scale speed, creating the aerodynamic problem of how to keep them from becoming airborne...
...motors to rev up to as much as a staggering 25,000 r.p.m. They buzzed over from England to the U.S. about ten years ago, but only in the last year or so have they moved out of the hobby shops and the subteen set to become a full-scale way of life. Epicenter of the new wave is California, where there are now about 300 slot shops, as the racing centers are called, and in the San Francisco area alone, there are at least nine tournaments every weekend. Just in the past year, 20 new tracks have opened...
...Anne of Brittany, whose marriage was celebrated by the weaving of the Unicorn tapestries, which Rorimer acquired for the Met. He was director of the Met's Rockefeller-endowed, monastery-like Cloisters, overlooking the Hudson, from its very inception, when he virtually designed it by staking out full-scale mock-ups in burlap. Chosen from among 150 potential candidates to become director in 1955, he today heads up a curatorial staff of 128, administers a budget of $4,800,000 ($1,300,000 provided by the city), has behind him a war chest of more than...