Word: scrapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Master Sinner. In deference to Labor's unilateralist disarmers, Wilson had pledged that, once in office, he would not only scrap Britain's independent deterrent but also oppose the U.S.-backed multi-lateral force. However, in his talks with President Johnson in Washington, he had, in fact, not so much opposed MLF as proposed a way of enlarging and diluting it. In reporting on his talks to the party conference, Wilson hedged: he had not committed Britain to MLF. he said, and had entirely "reserved" his position. This was patently less than the whole truth, but enough...
HERBERT KALLEM-Roko, 867 Madison Ave. at 72nd. Kallem once shared a studio with Stage Funnyman Zero Mostel (who paints too), is clever enough himself to provoke smiles with plumbing fixtures, pipes, and scrap iron that wind up as owls and other witty figments of his imagination. Through...
Doty also predicted that maintaining Gen Ed on a voluntary basis, as Constable suggested, would "make the existing situation worse." The Committee on General Education would have an even harder time than it now does in organizing good courses, he said, and it would be afraid to scrap the bad ones, for fear the program would dwindle out of existence...
...vessels-the aircraft carrier Melbourne, three destroyers (there were four until the Melbourne accidentally sliced one in half last February), and a handful of frigates and minesweepers. The northern port of Darwin is garrisoned by only 150 troops; its coastal guns have been dismantled and sold to Japan as scrap; Darwin has no antiaircraft batteries, and until last month the single radar station operated from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays only...
...paints his mobiles with brushes instead of spraying them. Sprung from the modern esthetic that sees wisdom in childhood, his work is a comment on, rather than patent approval of, the Machine Age. For the fun of it, Calder makes his own family kitchenware-ladles, forks, spoons-using leftover scrap metal; he snips out toys for his grandchildren and jewelry for his wife. He is, in effect, a sophisticated primitive who sees the root of art in craft and invention...