Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Life. A slot car is a plastic scale model of a real car. It runs on a slotted track. A fin under the nose of the car fits into the slot but does not lock there-nothing but the car's weight keeps it in place. Power is provided by electric current picked up by brushes that run along the metal strips flanking the slot. Race tracks have from four to six slots running parallel, each connected to a rheostat to enable the "driver" to control the car's speed. Herein lies the skill; going into a turn...
...that the divided Communists "are in much worse shape. The split is more fundamental." Lodge suggested that the other Atlantic partners, despite De Gaulle, set about creating a grander alliance, in the hope that France would come in later. "There is today no organized grouping, on a worldwide scale, of the free peoples," Lodge lamented. "The great tragedy of our age is the inability of free men to create one well-rounded and essentially spiritual view of life by harnessing toward common goals their talents. Sometime, somehow, somewhere, power and responsibility must meet." He endorsed suggestions for the creation...
...Lima presidential palace, Belaúnde has turned the ornate, wood-paneled state dining room into a wall-to-wall showcase for his housing, road and irrigation projects. Huge maps cover the walls, and dozens of scale-model projects are lined up neatly on tables. "This one will open in July," he says, pointing to a housing project. "We've just broken ground on that one over there." He turns to the maps with their probing lines thrusting east from the Pacific. "You know," he mutters, putting his finger on a village deep in the towering Andes, "that used...
...schemes to water Peru's deserts, tame its Andean mountains and populate its Amazonian jungles sound visionary to an extreme. Peruvians are at least willing to let him try. "We must not be afraid of greatness," he says. "We have lost the habit of thinking on a grand scale, of conceiving works that, like the Panama Canal, change the geography of a continent. The hour of the pioneer, the founder of new cities, must be sounded. Nature is our enemy, and nature can be overcome...
...Anderson tells me that this is the first work he has attempted on this scale. His conception is ambitious, and it is obvious that performers and technicians have put a lot of their talent and time producing it. Mr. Anderson's thorough understanding of Indian music is apparent, and the synthesis succeeds on one level. But the total result might have been more successful if he had worked separately on all the forms he employed before combining so many of them into one work...